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Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by hinkley on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:19PM (#40868633)
I really, really want someone to commercialize the mechanical doping tech they've been using. Get caught and go straight please.

Give me a bike that looks like a normal bike and gives mere mortals like me an extra 5 mph (power law makes that a lot worse for pros).

Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by jdietrich on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:40PM (#40869761)
That's basically already a thing. There's a big market for older riders who want a little bit of discreet assistance on their group ride.

https://www.orbea.com/us-en/ebikes/road/gain/

Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by hinkley on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:47PM (#40869827)
To my eyes, that bike obviously has a battery in the downtube. But I'm not the average person where bikes are concerned so perhaps I should have said, "a bike that would fool other bicyclists."
Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by fbdab103 on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @07:19PM (#40870987)
Assuming the pros are cheating, the professional assistance is unlikely to be of use to a regular human. At the professional level, a 1% gain could be huge, whereas a normal rider could gain far more than that by better techniques/breathing/equipment/whatever.
Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by hinkley on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @08:39PM (#40871390)
It’s not 1% it’s 35 watts. Which matters a lot more when you’re a rider who can only put out 200 watts.