This is not new and they routinely examine bikes for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_doping
Article created in 2016.
This is not new and they routinely examine bikes for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_doping
Article created in 2016.
even before that, eg. WP article from 2015:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/07/23...
Even before that. 2010 or so they were saying - without evidence - Cancellara used motors in the spring classics.
It's just clickbait to co-incide with the end of the TdF.
Yeah, I think I remember reading about this a long time ago. Either here or on Wired.