Cancellara, electric bike and all

Here is what you need to put on your bike:
http://dvice.com/assets_c/2009/05/GRA-komplett_Größe-ändern1-thumb-550x387-17870.jpg

Here is one pic of cancellara (you can find others, multiple angles, views etc)…no cables coming out, no little button to change gears, no seat bag, nothing under
the BB…and apparently the gruber assist works with shimano cranks…Cancellara runs specialized s-works integrated cranks.

http://www.crank.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cancellara1.jpg

Look at the unnatural coloration on his right leg. Look at the unusual rippling effect just below the knee. Are you blind, man??? It is obviously a fake leg hiding all the extra equipment.

Case closed! :wink:

My bad! How could I miss that??

And come on…clearly, he is trying to fake pain, but he’s just laughing his ass off :wink:

Look at the guy in the jeans, black jacket, and dark glasses just to the right of Cancellera. CLEARLY that guys is saying, “What the hell is that noise?”

Case closed!

Actually, Cancellara covered the noise by playing like a kid…when he attacked he was heard saying: brrrrrrrrr…vrooom vrooooom…brrrrr
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Here’s a pic of his chainstay:

http://i50.tinypic.com/2m6tm6s.jpg
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at the risk of being called an idiot yet once again by some malcontent no one or another let me ask you this, how long does it take for one design of anything on this earth that comes out to be duplicated, even improved? you people are acting as if any little old machine shop can’t cut teeth into any kind of shaft to fit any crank or flywheel within minutes. that entire get up could be improved in design and manufactured within minutes. and if what is pic’d above is all you need for a first time out design how is it not possible that a tiny lithium ion battery, one tenth that size and twice the power, isn’t in use on some specified motor that was built specifically for Cinderella? i’m simply suggesting that the actual gruber assist, the noisy neanderthal version that everyone is assuming is the only device of its kind in existance, is not specifically what he is using IF he is indeed which I do believe he is. It would make no sense for him to have that noise bomb on his bike but rather something completely stealth which again would be easy to manufacture if you knew the right people, a simple engineer and a machine shop more than likely with someone to give the data to to plot it out or whatever, a designer.

I do hate to assume anything and especially of anyone of his stature but the accelerations are far too comic relief and the body language just doesn’t compute and honestly I’m surprised that his bike wasn’t confiscated and stripped apart directly after either of those two races.

Here’s a pic of his chainstay:

http://i50.tinypic.com/2m6tm6s.jpg

Now, me, I can get away with a single clothes pin. But Cancellara? He needs three, count 'em, three clothes pins for the card in his spokes. Maybe only two on a regular stage, but Paris Roubaix? Definitely a three clothes pin day.

The card is laminated and reinforced with a zip-tie and Gorilla Glue. This is Spartacus we’re talking about here. In Switzerland it’s actually called “Cancellara Glue” and it’s made from Fabian’s semen. Chuck Norris rubs it on his testicles before big fights.

Here’s a pic of his chainstay:

http://i50.tinypic.com/2m6tm6s.jpg

What is that greenish glow? Some sort of mini-reactor in the brake pads?

That’s called “Shutter,” and it’s the photographic manifestation of a murdered Belgian woman that was killed on the Muur when Fabian attacked without getting out of the saddle. She was later brought back to life when Fabian put the picture in his bike shorts while doing attack intervals.

at the risk of being called an idiot yet once again by some malcontent no one or another let me ask you this, how long does it take for one design of anything on this earth that comes out to be duplicated, even improved? you people are acting as if any little old machine shop can’t cut teeth into any kind of shaft to fit any crank or flywheel within minutes. that entire get up could be improved in design and manufactured within minutes. and if what is pic’d above is all you need for a first time out design how is it not possible that a tiny lithium ion battery, one tenth that size and twice the power, isn’t in use on some specified motor that was built specifically for Cinderella? i’m simply suggesting that the actual gruber assist, the noisy neanderthal version that everyone is assuming is the only device of its kind in existance, is not specifically what he is using IF he is indeed which I do believe he is. It would make no sense for him to have that noise bomb on his bike but rather something completely stealth which again would be easy to manufacture if you knew the right people, a simple engineer and a machine shop more than likely with someone to give the data to to plot it out or whatever, a designer.

I do hate to assume anything and especially of anyone of his stature but the accelerations are far too comic relief and the body language just doesn’t compute and honestly I’m surprised that his bike wasn’t confiscated and stripped apart directly after either of those two races.

Careful, but I think your foil hat might have skewed off your head a bit…

You know…it’s not as if they guy hasn’t been known to accelerate away from people and finish solo before, huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdTHnYIAGPs

i fully realize this but not ever in the manner that he did it in the vid has he done so before. it’s as if he’s on, well, a bike with an electric motor.

does his movements not look completely false to you? I mean look at his legs in the first acceleration, it is not a normal cranking of the pedals but rather like i said in that other thread, the pedals cranking his legs.

and to anyone who says something about those other riders saying that he caught the perfect time to break away, I’ll be more than willing to place a bet that after those other guys saw the aerial footage and close up of FB breaking off, more than all of them have thoughts of something not being right. they couldn’t see his legs as they were pretty much single file and behind at the time but from the air and on tv and the angles we all saw, no doubt.

too bad none are gonna say anything unless he gets busted, wouldn’t want to get sued now would they?

i fully realize this but not ever in the manner that he did it in the vid has he done so before. it’s as if he’s on, well, a bike with an electric motor.

does his movements not look completely false to you? I mean look at his legs in the first acceleration, it is not a normal cranking of the pedals but rather like i said in that other thread, the pedals cranking his legs.

You’re seeing things that just aren’t there…you do realize that he can shift, right? I would like to see an analysis of the the riders in that first clip relative to objects on the ground. FC actually got out of the saddle at the start of his response to someone else’s attack, and when the lead guys backed off (and started looking around) he just didn’t slow down as much as the others. THAT’S why it looks like he just accelerated away from them. It’s hard to tell this from a helicopter view that’s moving as well.

In the second clip, take a look at his initial cadence vs. Boonen. The reason Boonen had to get out of the saddle and FC didn’t was because he got caught overgeared…again, it wasn’t so much that FC accelerated away, it’s that he didn’t slow down as much as Boonen because he was in the right gear to be able to keep cranking away as the incline changed.

This is all just a load of donkeycrap…

I am curious about this however I wonder what kind of torque that motor would have to be producing to deliver the power to the bottom bracket and produce the kind of accelerations we are talking about. You would think it might actually tear apart the seat tube where the two small bolts holding the motor in place are located. The other part of this concept that I have questions about is the batteries. Unless technology has advanced alot more than I realized a motor producing the kind of power necessary would require alot of juice. This guy is 6’1" 180lbs and this supposed motor is powering him away from the competition uphill? I am not a power junkie so don’t really know what kind of power this would require, but there should be some people on here who could estimate the power and translate that in to torque, and even what kind of batteries could fuel such a motor. Would the gear on the motor even be able to handle the kind of torque required?

This is all just a load of donkeycrap…

it might just be…electric donkey crap. :wink:

I dunno, it just looks so unnatural to me.

This is all just a load of donkeycrap…

it might just be…electric donkey crap. :wink:

I dunno, it just looks so unnatural to me.

That’s simply because you’ve already made up your mind that it is so…sort of like the guys who still claim that the moon missions were faked.

The guy is already a freak of nature…why the heck does he need a friggin’ little motor?

I am curious about this however I wonder what kind of torque that motor would have to be producing to deliver the power to the bottom bracket and produce the kind of accelerations we are talking about. You would think it might actually tear apart the seat tube where the two small bolts holding the motor in place are located. The other part of this concept that I have questions about is the batteries. Unless technology has advanced alot more than I realized a motor producing the kind of power necessary would require alot of juice. This guy is 6’1" 180lbs and this supposed motor is powering him away from the competition uphill? I am not a power junkie so don’t really know what kind of power this would require, but there should be some people on here who could estimate the power and translate that in to torque, and even what kind of batteries could fuel such a motor. Would the gear on the motor even be able to handle the kind of torque required?

i’m reaching here but if someone can think it, it’s possible. who knows, the insides of those tubes could have cross braces added into the mold? such as sub frame connectors used on hot rods so as to to not twist the frame with all that torque.

check this vid out, this guy is really moving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a_Z-ywTc4w

This is all just a load of donkeycrap…

it might just be…electric donkey crap. :wink:

I dunno, it just looks so unnatural to me.

That’s simply because you’ve already made up your mind that it is so…sort of like the guys who still claim that the moon missions were faked.

The guy is already a freak of nature…why the heck does he need a friggin’ little motor?

i’ve made up my mind that it looks unnatural, humanly impossible and comical so I guess I have so yes. and to answer your question as to why i’d say to make sure he wins, gaurantee it, just like people dope with drugs albeit that isn’t as guaranateed as you still have to work for it so your body is using energy whereas with a motor you can conserve you body’s energy and be fresh. and those little motors can generate power, more than given credit.