Nick A
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| 02/01/2016 03:49 PM |
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I'll start motor pacing unsuspecting driver's on 35 mph roads a la Pee Wee Herman in Le Tour.
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Yo Mike
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| 02/01/2016 03:55 PM |
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The family sounds like some real winners.
The bike is in official hands, of course.
Is the battery depleted? This would imply that the illegal device was actively used during the race, and that the rider knew how to operate the device. |
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SideBySide
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| 02/01/2016 05:01 PM |
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| I would say that if the battery is fully charged, then they probably intended to use it if she needed a boost. |
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Orange Crush
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| 02/01/2016 05:11 PM |
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All of that is beside the point...If non-compliant equipment is found near a team or race, “within or in the margins of a cycling competition,” as the UCI rule states, it qualifies as technological fraud.
So she's toast, period. It doesn't even matter if it was her bike or not.
Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/02/news/explainer-prosecuting-technological-fraud_394361#KxzbfVWumGP6dIre.99 |
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SideBySide
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| 02/02/2016 01:24 PM |
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| I agree OC. She should be out. I was simply addressing "intent." |
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Nick A
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| 02/02/2016 09:06 PM |
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| When this was brought up before (about Cancellera maybe?) I thought it was some really off the wall stuff. Man, I have to tell you, this has really got me bummed. So ridiculous and pointless. |
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longslowdistance
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| 02/03/2016 07:34 AM |
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| I confess this episode has jogged my memory of Cancellara looking like he was shot out of a canon dropping Tomke a few years back, with no change in his pedal stroke. It was, simply, amazing. Not saying he was aided, but the whispers may rise to a murmur now. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 02/03/2016 10:13 AM |
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Article below has videos of the Cancellera "controversy" as well as that of Ryder's rear wheel spinning in what seems to be an unlikely manner after a crash.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/02/news/cancellara-says-motors-in-bikes-are-an-old-story_394476 |
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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longslowdistance
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| 02/03/2016 10:49 AM |
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| The Ryder thing is stupid, no suspicion there unless wearing an aluminum foil hat. |
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Orange Crush
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| 02/04/2016 12:58 PM |
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Fifteen very instructional minutes...of course you guys won't understand a thing.
Two guys test out a motorised bike with Johan Museeuw, then use the bike in a big kermis race...no one has a clue that there's a "cheater" in their midst.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqhX8-dazOo |
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longslowdistance
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| 02/04/2016 03:39 PM |
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| I understood one thing: the motorized bike is named "Sparticus". I don't know if that was intentional, but I laughed out loud. |
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Orange Crush
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| 02/04/2016 03:42 PM |
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| Of course that was intentional...that's Belgian humor for you :-) |
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Orange Crush
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| 04/17/2016 09:12 AM |
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About those magnetic wheels that we kind of laughed about a few months ago
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mechanical-doping-used-in-strade-bianche-and-coppi-e-bartali-claims-investigation/
Brutal if this is true. |
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79pmooney
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| 04/17/2016 11:18 AM |
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Making Greg Lemond look not quite so dumb.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lemond-the-uci-should-use-a-heat-gun-to-detect-motors/ (May, 2016)
Sadly, Greg Lemond is like Jimmy Carter. They both speak the truth about what they know and love (bicycle racing, humanity). That truth is way too uncomfortable for many at the top and if these troublemakers can be set aside, they will. (I thing the Panama elections during the Reagan administration was the last time the State Department used Jimmy Carter to oversee an election. He saw what was going on and said to the whole world what he saw. This was supposed to be a crowning achievement of spreading democracy.)
rant, rant
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79pmooney
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| 04/17/2016 12:33 PM |
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A new meaning for "packing heat".
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