I think this is the first time that I've seen reporters mention that they have tested out the once mythical €20,000 motorized bike wheel that are so advanced they have parts of the motor (induction plates) built into the inside of the carbon fibre rim. This and the previous known news that the UCI test devices are ordinary iPad Minis that are easily cheated. I think this means that these motorized wheels have already been in use in bike races for a long time now and that some teams have been using motorized bikes since the UCI is incompetent under Britain Brian Cookson.
*COUGH* UK Postal *COUGH*
Valeske and his team proceeded to use the UCI tablet device to scan a bike equipped with an electromagnetic induction wheel. This is reputedly the latest generation of mechanical doping, and a wheel equipped with the technology is reported to cost over €20,000. The tablet failed to detect any magnetic field whatsoever around the wheel, but when the wheel was passed through an X-ray scanner, the induction motor was clearly visible.
“The wheel is ‘perfectly clean’, at least for the tablet. However, the X-rays instead show the induction plates and the transmission cables, perfectly hidden by carbon,” wrote Marco Bonarrigo of Il Corriere della Sera. “The wheel that transforms the bike into a motorbike is, for the UCI controls, a piece of inert fibre.”
http://www.cyclingnews.com/...or-mechanical-doping
*COUGH* UK Postal *COUGH*
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Valeske and his team proceeded to use the UCI tablet device to scan a bike equipped with an electromagnetic induction wheel. This is reputedly the latest generation of mechanical doping, and a wheel equipped with the technology is reported to cost over €20,000. The tablet failed to detect any magnetic field whatsoever around the wheel, but when the wheel was passed through an X-ray scanner, the induction motor was clearly visible.
“The wheel is ‘perfectly clean’, at least for the tablet. However, the X-rays instead show the induction plates and the transmission cables, perfectly hidden by carbon,” wrote Marco Bonarrigo of Il Corriere della Sera. “The wheel that transforms the bike into a motorbike is, for the UCI controls, a piece of inert fibre.”
http://www.cyclingnews.com/...or-mechanical-doping
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Hybridlete: Sep 3, 17 6:32