Talk:Mechanical doping

A fact from Mechanical doping appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 May 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a cyclist was caught mechanical doping after an electric motor was found in her bike, 6 years after the first allegations emerged?

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the interesting thing is missing

these motors must be impressive engineering if they are both useful and so unobtrusive as to be invisible. 108.183.102.223 (talk) 20:07, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution Mechanical doping

Much of this article was lifted from Femke Van den Driessche Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution. Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.Otherwise it is a copyright violation. It would have been nice to have gotten WP:DYK credit. It is not a zero sum game. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:07, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bicycle KERS must be differentiated from cheating via the use of pre-charged batteries.

The article should discuss that mechanical doping and KERS are not the same or at least not necessarily the same. It is possible that electric motors, within the realm of KERS, will be allowed in bicycle races some time in the future. That is, standardized electric batteries will be randomly distributed to racers of electified bikes, but in a totally empty of charge state. Racers can use regenerative braking on descend or the method of partially diverting muscle effort from achieving higher speed to dynamo charging and later recover the invested energy from KERS battery. This way the bicycle remains solely muscle powered in the net balance, so it is not mechanical doping, but the non-climbers can become competitive on climbs and the non-sprinters can become competitive on flats by using KERS. 87.97.91.223 (talk) 18:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any evidence to suggest this is actually going to happen? Only, if the UCI can't get disk-brakes right - I sincerely doubt that we'll have an F1-style KERS system in cycling, that sounds absolutely ridiculous. XyZAn (talk) 10:04, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How this works

I am surprised that much of an advantage can be obtained from a motor small enough and quiet enough to be hidden, along with its power source. It would be very interesting to see a discussion of this.Bill (talk) 21:24, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]