Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors

Re:Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using... by tzs on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @12:08AM (#11524818)

How about something in between? A rider and a manufacturer can work together to design a new bike for that rider, but for actual races the manufacturer has to build an instance of that bike under supervision of race officials and turn it over to them, and it is that instance that the rider must use in the race. Once the bike is turned over to race officials, no one is allowed unsupervised access.

That allows innovation, while making it much harder for a rider and team to cheat.

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Re:Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using... by hinkley on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @03:32AM (#11525409)

Those bikes tend to get stripped down every day. Some of the frame designs have at times been rated for less than 10k miles, meaning they wear out at some point, possibly before the end of the race.

For instance a commercial aluminum frame is overbuilt so that it doesn't vibrate itself to pieces, but if you are going to get a new one in a week why bother?

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Re:Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using... by StephenConnell on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @12:26AM (#11524873)

Wouldn't that be more work than just inspecting the bikes?

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Re:Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using... by usrusr on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @03:43AM (#11525457)

Frames are OTS products under current UCI regulations. But fitting that frame to the rider involves a lot of individual tweaking by the team mechanic, so you can't really lock them down ahead of time. But with IR cameras and a reasonable identification system directing post-race (our post-change) physical searches motor cheating should be easy enough to control, very much unlike PEDs.

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