Motors are acceptable for this.
Motherfucker.
I honestly don’t like swearing in an Article, much less using such a word to open an article, but seriously. Motherfucker. A motor discovered in an U23 rider’s bike at the Cyclocross World Championships has to be the lowest of the low that anyone can go. I’m so pissed off, I’m rhyming. Which itself makes me madder than a hatter.
I have a pretty lenient stance on doping, which I hold to fairly wide criticism. I believe that the path towards doping is full of shadows and gradual steps towards the darkness. It is easy for me to imagine a young, ambitious rider who has sacrificed education and other vocations for the chance to become a Pro Cyclist, who is taken under the wing of an older, more experienced rider and to whom is explained the ways of the sport. If I was 18 and following that path, I cannot say with certainty what choice I would make, given the limited perspective one would have under those circumstances. While I hate doping and wish for clean sport, I hold limited judgement over those who have strayed down that path.
But we ride bicycles for the pleasure of propelling ourselves along the road under our own power. We push the pedals and we go faster, it is as simple as that; the motor resides in our heads and in our hearts. Performance enhancing drugs will, to various degrees, fine-tune and modify that motor, but there remains alive a notion that even a doped rider is holding true to this basic notion.
Competition is about finding out who is the superior athlete, it is as simple as that. We train, we fine-tune our equipment, we learn the strategy and tactics required to rise to the top. Doping certainly obscures that concept, but that a rider would abandon this fundamental principle of our sport by utilizing a motor in their bike seems to me an order of magnitude removed. It is gratuitous to the extent that there is no possible justification apart from an unabashed desire to win over all else.
This is bike racing, not motorcycle racing. For fucks sake.
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I don't understand a word, but worth watching. And clearly a dig at Spartacus.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/can-an-amateur-beat-johan-museeuw-up-the-oude-kwaremont-with-the-help-of-a-motor-211294
@kixsand
Yeah, his acceleration just looks way too easy.
@chuckp
That would make adjusting your gears easier. More expensive than using a child to turn the cranks, though.
Hello. I almost never post here but thought some of you who haven't seen this might enjoy viewing. Check out the fourth rider, can someone explain how his rear wheel rotates in such thick mud in relation to his lack of pedaling? https://www.instagram.com/p/BBRFHHBsr9A/?taken-by=adammyerson Cheers!
@chuckp
Yeah I saw that too - check out the work stand at 5:17. Mechanical doping in the workshop? That's one cool workstand.
This had me smiling and more.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/dr-hutch-hard-not-laugh-motorised-doping-224900?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social
I love "checking the durability of the door handle of the team car as it does 40kph up a climb. (“Yes, Mr Vinokourov, it’s really well attached. My compliments to the man who bolts on your door handles.”)"
The video on waving is quite funny too - we did go there some time back but could not find the related article.
@Teocalli
Ha! Great video on waving. Thanks for that!
I saw many cyclists yesterday on my ride (fair-weather types as it was a beautiful day here) and it brought me back into the waving etiquette thoughts again.
I believe it was JiPM (miss that guy around here) who likened his waving to others cyclists as of the Forrest Gump variety and while I try to restrain myself, I more often than not seem to be of the same ilk on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMse7XwZmoA
Wave on!
@Buck Rogers
Leaping off your bike seems a bit in excess though!
Ha! Trying your step-by-step program on how to embed a vid into the V site, Teocalli! What do you know?? It actually worked!
Now do you have any Step-by-step programs on how to climb better?
@Buck Rogers
Sure:
1. Pedal harder.
2. Pedal even harder.
3. Don't collapse.
4. Repeat till it gets easier (you should be at the top then).