A 53 year old amateur Italian ride was caught with a hidden seat tube motor in his Argon 18 road bike that he used to cheat to a 3rd place finish in a race. He was caught and confessed after the race organizers were tipped off by someone else and they used a thermal camera to catch the cheater red handed.
This is the second confirmed case of a hidden electric motor being used to cheat at a bike race with there being many more used that have gone undetected.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/...tor-at-italian-race/
The UCI has been using the magnetic compass on a regular iPad Mini to try to detect the hidden motors but Gadget Blues on YouTube has a VERY detailed breakdown on what that method simply doesn't work. It is extremely easy to shield a motor from emitting external magnetic fields with a thin sheet of a certain metal foil used commonly for this purpose.
I bet you there are many triathletes that have cheated with hidden electric motors and got away with it because no tri even attempts to catch motorized dopers. Tri's are so pathetic that they don't even use the flawed iPad Mini method let alone a thermal camera.
I think since the motorized doping problem is so widespread, thermal cameras need to be made standard in all races and that all competitors must remove their cranksets or seatposts before a race to allow race officials to check for hidden motors.
This is the second confirmed case of a hidden electric motor being used to cheat at a bike race with there being many more used that have gone undetected.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/...tor-at-italian-race/
The UCI has been using the magnetic compass on a regular iPad Mini to try to detect the hidden motors but Gadget Blues on YouTube has a VERY detailed breakdown on what that method simply doesn't work. It is extremely easy to shield a motor from emitting external magnetic fields with a thin sheet of a certain metal foil used commonly for this purpose.
I bet you there are many triathletes that have cheated with hidden electric motors and got away with it because no tri even attempts to catch motorized dopers. Tri's are so pathetic that they don't even use the flawed iPad Mini method let alone a thermal camera.
I think since the motorized doping problem is so widespread, thermal cameras need to be made standard in all races and that all competitors must remove their cranksets or seatposts before a race to allow race officials to check for hidden motors.