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Anthony Roux on Chinny

Postby iainf72 » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:00 am

He's not really a believer. And claims there is a lot of disbelief in the peloton.

http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=5746#ancre1
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Postby Dave_1 » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:30 am

iainf72 wrote:He's not really a believer. And claims there is a lot of disbelief in the peloton.

http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=5746#ancre1


me too. I see he's dropping off the radar a bit now...out of Amstel.
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Postby Kléber » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:41 am

There's even talk that Cancellara has some hidden motor on his bike, a reverse dynamo that powers the bottom bracket axle. Apparently that's why he had to change bikes, to get a new battery.
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Postby Timoid. » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:28 am

Kléber wrote:There's even talk that Cancellara has some hidden motor on his bike, a reverse dynamo that powers the bottom bracket axle. Apparently that's why he had to change bikes, to get a new battery.


Seriously? Aren't bikes checked. You are taking the p1ss right?
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Postby Kléber » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:37 am

How could they check the inside of the bike? I think the bike is weighed and measured.

I also think it's a daft idea, it came from the Inner Ring blog which concluded by saying that if some think there's a dynamo, others, like Roux, are whispering about more obvious performance enhancers. You might say if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's unlikely to be an electric duck.
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Postby calvjones » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:39 am

:roll:

*faint whooshing noise*
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Postby csp » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:12 am

So that could be why Breschel was so upset about the bike change in Flanders, claiming he had been given the wrong bike, i.e. one without a motor.
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Postby mididoctors » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:13 am

Kléber wrote:There's even talk that Cancellara has some hidden motor on his bike, a reverse dynamo that powers the bottom bracket axle. Apparently that's why he had to change bikes, to get a new battery.


:lol:
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Postby mididoctors » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:15 am

Timoid. wrote:
Kléber wrote:There's even talk that Cancellara has some hidden motor on his bike, a reverse dynamo that powers the bottom bracket axle. Apparently that's why he had to change bikes, to get a new battery.


Seriously? Aren't bikes checked. You are taking the p1ss right?


no he is being deadly serious

special super magnets in the
BB shell
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Postby mididoctors » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:16 am

csp wrote:So that could be why Breschel was so upset about the bike change in Flanders, claiming he had been given the wrong bike, i.e. one without a motor.


yeah I was down for the super conducting magnet bike... what gives? :lol:
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Postby stagehopper » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:21 am

It's no coincidence that Cancellara's timetrial training involves two laps of the 27km CERN LHC circuit.
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Postby LangerDan » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:33 am

No special magnets needed.
A few years ago at Eurobike, a German(?) manufacturer showed a small motor to be mounted inside a seat-tube which drove the BB axle by a bevel gear. As an option they had a high power compact battery pack which also fitted into the seat tube and gave boosts of ~200W. The only external indication was a small push-button on the bars - that and the fact that you went up the road like a stabbed rat.

IIRC the complete assembly only weighed a 1-2 kg.
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Postby csp » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:44 am

LangerDan wrote:No special magnets needed.
A few years ago at Eurobike, a German(?) manufacturer showed a small motor to be mounted inside a seat-tube which drove the BB axle by a bevel gear. As an option they had a high power compact battery pack which also fitted into the seat tube and gave boosts of ~200W. The only external indication was a small push-button on the bars - that and the fact that you went up the road like a stabbed rat.

IIRC the complete assembly only weighed a 1-2 kg.


Here it is, but it's Japanese, not German, and it's not just Cancellara, you can see many other teams using it.

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Postby RichN95 » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:56 am

csp wrote:
Here it is, but it's Japanese, not German, and it's not just Cancellara, you can see many other teams using it.



They're gear shifters.

I've yet to see an electronic bike on which it wasn't bleeding obvious where the battery was. He's a selection of e-bikes for the most recent Eurobike show. All with batteries the size of the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

http://www.bikeradar.com/gallery/article/eurobike-e-bikes-creating-a-buzz-23032?img=25&pn=eurobike-e-bikes-creating-a-buzz&mlc=news%2Farticle
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Postby flattythehurdler » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:58 am

LangerDan wrote:No special magnets needed.
A few years ago at Eurobike, a German(?) manufacturer showed a small motor to be mounted inside a seat-tube which drove the BB axle by a bevel gear. As an option they had a high power compact battery pack which also fitted into the seat tube and gave boosts of ~200W. The only external indication was a small push-button on the bars - that and the fact that you went up the road like a stabbed rat.

IIRC the complete assembly only weighed a 1-2 kg.

I've never yet managed to stab a rat. I do find his recent performances incroyable, but I'm more with kleber on the electric duck thing.
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Postby mididoctors » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:14 pm

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Postby LangerDan » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:17 pm

Found it - the "Gruber Assist" - the commerical version has a small Li Ion or NiMH pack in the saddle bag but they did show a tube mounted battery pack at one of the shows.
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http://www.gruberassist.com/english/dow ... er-assist/
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Postby mididoctors » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:17 pm

LangerDan wrote:No special magnets needed.
A few years ago at Eurobike, a German(?) manufacturer showed a small motor to be mounted inside a seat-tube which drove the BB axle by a bevel gear. As an option they had a high power compact battery pack which also fitted into the seat tube and gave boosts of ~200W. The only external indication was a small push-button on the bars - that and the fact that you went up the road like a stabbed rat.

IIRC the complete assembly only weighed a 1-2 kg.


an electric motor will have magnets in it thou...

a 200w motor with a battery that is small enough to stuff in the seat tube?
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Postby afx237vi » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:27 pm

mididoctors wrote:Image


*golf clap*

Well played.
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Postby Kléber » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:33 pm

Thread of the year so far for me :lol:
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