{"id":114874,"date":"2016-02-01T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114874"},"modified":"2016-02-01T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T03:30:39","slug":"cycling-all-you-need-to-know-about-concealed-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114874","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; All you need to know about concealed motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p>You\u2019ll no doubt have read the shocking news over the weekend of the UCI detaining a bike at the cyclocross world championships due to a suspected motor hidden inside the frame. But just how easy is it to hide a motor in a bicycle frame without anyone noticing and how does it work?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Mechanical doping at Cyclocross Worlds confirmed<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What is mechanical or motor\u00a0doping?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the name suggests motor doping is using an electric motor hidden in the bicycle frame to boost performance. Motor doping is part of a much wider form of cheating known as mechanical doping.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise then that it\u2019s very much against the rules of bicycle racing. In UCI speak it\u2019s called technological fraud which is prohibited under article \u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/road.cc\/content\/tech-news\/177246-mechanical-doping-all-you-need-know-about-concealed-motors\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll no doubt have read the shocking news over the weekend of the UCI detaining a bike at the cyclocross world championships due to a suspected motor hidden inside the frame. But just how easy is it to hide a motor in a bicycle frame without anyone noticing and how does it work? &#8211;\u00a0Mechanical doping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,38,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-cyclocross","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114875,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114874\/revisions\/114875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}