Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara has dismissed as outrageous claims that he could have employed a ‘motorised’ bike to win this season’s Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix classics, after an online YouTube video cast doubt over his wins.
The truth can now be revealed!!
It came to light in extraordinary circumstances! Two amazing wins for Fabian Cancellara in both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix led some to question the use of a motorised bike (doped bike).
“It’s so stupid I’m speechless,” said Cancellara, who rides for the Saxo Bank team. “I’ve never had batteries on my bike.”
A (now famous) video featuring former professional cyclist Davide Cassani showed a bike operating with what he claimed was a motor concealed by the pedals, with a button to operate the device hidden within the gear levers on the handlebars.
In Cassani’s video there is footage of Cancellara and what it claims are suspicious slips of his right hand on the bike handlebars before he accelerates effortlessly away from his rivals.
“It’s quite funny but it’s become a bigger story and is no longer so funny,” said Cancellara. “It’s a sad and really outrageous story. Believe me, my feats are the result of hard work.”
Our experts agree. Spartacus’ feats are indeed the result of hard work!
While everyone else has been concerned with a battery-powered motorised bike, careful study of recent time-trialling footage has revealed what other have failed to observed. A discreet propeller (Yes a propeller!) manufactured from the same stealth-like material used to manufacture military aircraft provides Cancellara all the acceleration needed to positively blitz the peleton.
Further footage and analysis shows that this is not a motorised propeller but indeed a mechanical one powered by creating a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
With each pedal stroke, the propeller spins faster causing the rider to maintain the same high speed with less effort. Since he has energy in reserve, he is able to pedal faster which turns the propeller even faster causing him to move even faster.
“The film on Youtube does make you doubt,” Peeters, the Quick Step sports director has told Het Laatste Nieuws, “but I’m convinced Fabian achieved his feats using his own means.”
Cancellara image courtesy of Le Rouleur Lent
Saxobank peleton image courtesy of Robert | www.robertvandijk.com
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