Is This Bizarre Crash Proof of Motor-doping? Tour of Denmark 2021

The bizarre crash in the Tour of Denmark could potentially be showcasing the problem that has been eluded to by anonymous sources in the peloton or can it just be explained by a simple physics lesson?

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[ungave]

How about not calling it doping and instead calling it cheating

[letsssgooo]

It’s pretty obvious when these teams are switching bikes half a dozen times for one stage

[justbreakingballs]

Yeh the huge wind driving across the road, it’s nearly flattening those crops.

[JB-uvhm]

Look at the corn. It’s not windy enough to move a bike. Plus they’d be echeloned out the other way.

[attybong]

no need for debate, race officials only have to pickup the bike, remove its components and see if there is moto inside the frame .. controversy solved

[bmx]

wind? the 5000 corn plants or whatever weren't moving even a little bit.

[williamoleary]

Why are bikes used not inspected before and after each Stage or Race???

[carlholland]

after the 2nd rider high sided, the 1st bike bounced low a couple times then bounced high and nearly stood itself up. 100% motor in it

[michaelangelos]

I've been in over 400 bicycle races and I figure I've seen about two to three crashes per race with one or more racers involved.
Maybe a thousand crashes in my career .
And I've seen bicycles fly across the road in every kind of manner..
NEVER have I seen a bike do that.
It's like a scared chicken running away.

[johnandrews]

Reminds me of when Ryder when down at the giro. My wheels are light and have ceramic bearings and when I've gone down my rear wheel has never careened my bike across the road even remotely like that.

[misspollyanna]

Wind is coming from the right - obviously by the peloton formation. So we can rule out that theory.

[MH-YouTube-Controlled]

If a coach, team manager, or sponsor even mentioned it, I'd leave the team on the spot.

[texwallis]

It seems it would be trivial to try and reproduce. Spin a rear wheel up to 50kph and lay it down like that. Anyway, visions of Ryder Hesjedal for sure.

[mikes]

Pretty simple like you have to drug test after a race your bike has to be inspected after a race, or any bike you use during the race that will end it all

[SilvaaFabio]

Ive seen this happen when the all the doping craze was still going really strong some years ago. I was in the front of the pack in a local race and then a crash happened, turns out one of the bikes went from one side of the road to the other almost like someone was still pedalling on it, I didnt see it but the race was immediatly stoped because the back of the group that saw that immediatly started complaining and we had already gone through some climbs so we were about 25 on that pack and the testosterone was all over the air. The organizers took that bike with them and the dude couldnt even continue because he got seriously injured so everything good and a cheater got justice right? Wrong, that bycicle wasnt modified, and that magic act actually happened.

[maryc]

I 💯 per believe lance used motors during his TDF victories. Go back and look at all the old footage of his time trial victories. He always reaches back to pinch the top of the pad in his shorts with his left hand. Even the late Paul Sherwen made a comment about it during the beginning of lances 2005 prologue ride. He referenced to "lances strange nervous habit of always reaching back to grab his shorts". Look it up. I believe the remote was hidden in the pad if his shorts.

[patrickj]

What i want to know is - do the spinning wheels, which are what appears to be propelling the bike across the road, have enough mass to give that kind of flywheel effect? Wheel are quite light. Wouldn't they quickly lose energy pushing the bike across the road?

[happydays]

It's my understanding that when it rains during the stage of a race, that bike is stripped to the frame and everything cleaned and reoiled. Why cant the bikes be inspected then?

[peterliljebladh]

Did the wheel continue to spinn for several minutes after the crash due to the motor being left on?

[swites]

I crashed in that exact same way as the poor guy on the right. This time it was a big strong 80kg guy trying to dive for the grass verge after a few guys right in front of him went down. His bike skated right the way over the other side of the wet road on its side where I went to miss the crash. 99/100 I would have missed his bike by 5m's. Honestly I've never seen a bike do that ever before. Was absolutely unbelievable! I was in hospital for 5days and out from cycling for 5months with many broken bones.