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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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