Just a tip of the iceberg with regards to cheating in bike races with electric motors. This by a 73 year old cycling club president attempting to win the race when everyone else were using their legs. If this guy was so willing to cheat to win at all costs at a small race, imagine the extent that Tour de France pro cyclists cheat with their much more advanced motors and big money.
Many of those intrepid hill climbers were shocked when the 73-year-old rider, the president of a local cycling club, passed them on the mountain, accompanied by a rather suspicious whirring sound emanating from his back wheel.
After the rider crossed the line in sixteenth place, covering the almost 10 kilometres in 25 minutes and 31 seconds, just over three minutes off the winning time, a number of his fellow competitors expressed their concerns to the race organisers.
Though he initially denied cheating, the unnamed rider succumbed to the inevitable when the organisers inspected his modified bike, and claimed that he used the motor to simply allow him to compete in the wake of last year’s cardiac arrest, which severely impacted the keen cyclist’s fitness.
