Dear Floyd I new you when you raced 24 hours of Moab in a t-shirt, I new you when you and I both race for TWP, I new you when you went roady with Mercury, I went to France and watched you lead Lance to his 5th tour victory, in 2006 I felt sick to my stomach after your collapse in stage 16 and then almost burned down the town after your comeback in stage 17. When you said you weren’t a cheater I believed you and defended you even through the ridicule of my peers. I wrote you a letter when you where with Ouch telling you to hang tough, that someday the truth would be known. Why now when the only reason for the “truth” is sorted profit and the spot light. I wished I’d never known you. Sincerely John Cummins
Gruber Assist, according to Cycling News, the motor is inserted down the seat tube of pro tour riders and interacts with a standard bottom bracket axel via a bevel gear unit. It is practically invisible but weighs a ton, although the model displayed on its website has an external on/off switch plus a battery pack that is mounted in a saddle bag. The total weight of all of the components is 1900 grams, and can provide 100 watts of power.
If we all start showing up to the start line with heavy bikes and/or large saddle bags then we will be packing a motor!
From the actual website - GRUBER Assist- a high-quality tuning product for your bicycle:
GRUBER Assist is an ultra-light drive for mountain bikes, trekking cycles and tour cycles, suitable for later installation. The skilfully conceived Gruber motor is invisibly built into the bicycle (seat tube with an inner diameter of 31.6mm required) and scores especially highly on account of its light weight (900 g).
A touch of the Turbo button on the handlebar – and the burning sensation in your thighs disappears – the healthy perspiration, however, remains. The auxiliary drive, with its 200 watt of additional power, promises a performance increase of up to 100% – for min. 45 minutes at full load. When the drive is switched off, you continue cycling as normal. GRUBER Assist guarantees pleasurable cycling without a red face!
Product attributes
• The electric motor is very light
• The propelling assistance is invisible
• Cycling becomes fitness cycling and is thereby healthier
• Thanks to its retrofit kit, it is almost irrelevant what brand of bike you have
• The pedal assistance brings speed on flat and power going uphill
The GRUBER Assist doesn’t have a blocking at 25 km/h and isn’t allowed for the public traffic. If you want this blocking, we certainly can install it for you.
World's Tallest Bike - The current world record holder, at 18 feet 2.5 inches, as judged by the Guinness Book of World Records, is Terry Goertzen, a pastor at the Jubilee Mennonite Church in Winnipeg. He rode his skyscraper for 300 meters to earn his spot in the annals of history.
How would you dismount this bike - Tour De France - Devil (El Diablo)!
The owner of this bike is Didi Senft - a cycle racing fan from Germany, and builder of oversize cycles. Born in 1952, Didi has long been a fan of the Tour de France. He noticed that the German television commentators would call the final kilometer of each stage 'The Red Devil's Lap': Since 1993, Didi has dressed in a red devil costume and followed the Tour de France around its entire course, hauling his huge bike around on a trailer. He says that he would prefer to be at the beginning of The Red Devil's Lap, 1km from the finish, but the race authorities and French police won't allow him and his bicycle that close because of the crowds, so he usually sets up at the flag which marks 20km to the finish, and often manages to get as close as 5km from the end on the mountain stages in the Pyrenees and Alps.
Art Bike - 6 extra spare wheels along for the ride....
“Forkless – Cruiser” by Olli Erkkila. This was designed for Olli's college graduation project at the Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland.
This unique bike comes with three wheels too, it is indeed an unusual bike. Since the three wheels are not in the same horizontal surface, the two face-to-face drivers have to ride it like playing a seesaw.
