Cheeky Cheating Cyclists

[BrilloPad]

Should I have examined Vetran's bike at L2B?

[LondonManc]

Nothing to do with being caught then. I am pleased you cleared that up.

ex-mrs-BP-1 used to take EPO. Before her kidney transplant.

She had to be on drugs to ride you? Says a lot pal. Stay strong.

[BrilloPad]

Cos of the side effects...

Nothing to do with being caught then. I am pleased you cleared that up.

ex-mrs-BP-1 used to take EPO. Before her kidney transplant.

[SueEllen]

Why don't they just stick to EPO?

Cos of the side effects...

[BrilloPad]

Why don't they just stick to EPO?

[LondonManc]

Simple, shoot the cyclist. If the wheels keep turning, they were a cheat with a motor. If not, one less cyclist.

I take it you have family in Salem?

[greenlake]

It used to be far easier to detect cheaters (and coyotes)....

[barrydidit]

Last summer I was chasing down a fat lad on a hybrid going downhill at an impressive pace. Gravity, I thought. I overtook and saw no more of him for a couple of miles on the flat. Coming uphill he swept past imperiously and through the sweat I could just make out he had an electric bike. Cheating fat ****er. These people should be tied to their bikes and thrown in a pond.

[WTFH]

Simple, shoot the cyclist. If the wheels keep turning, they were a cheat with a motor. If not, one less cyclist.

[vetran]

Cyclists Use Tiny Motors to Cheat | Hackaday

Blood doping is so last decade! The modern cyclist has a motor and power supply hidden inside the bike’s frame.

We were first tipped off to the subject in this article in the New York Times. A Belgian cyclocross rider, Femke Van den Driessche, was caught with a motor hidden in her bike.

While we don’t condone sports cheating, we think that hiding a motor inside a standard bike is pretty cool. But it’s even more fun to think of how to catch the cheats. The Italian and French press have fixated on the idea of using thermal cameras to detect the heat. (Skip to 7:50 in the franceTVsport clip.) We suspect it’s because their reporters recently bought Flir cameras and are trying to justify the expense.

The UCI, cycling’s regulatory body, doesn’t like thermal. They instead use magnetic pulses and listen for the characteristic ringing of a motor coil inside the frame. Other possibilities include X-ray and ultrasonic testing. What do you think? How would you detect a motor inside a bike frame or gearset?