This might create waves

Taxuser1

https://twitter.com/YohannBet/status/727601989815656448?s=09

Young Costa won the World Junior TT two years back in which Michael O Loughlin was 8th

Apologies if this has been up before

Cee-Jay-Cee

Fairly damning evidence in that clip. Apart from the wheel turning on its own, his quick move to stand the bike up again is pretty conclusive.

Diarmuid

Any theories how that wheel might have started spinning? I can only come up with one plausible one.

Raam

Diarmuid wrote: »

Any theories how that wheel might have started spinning? I can only come up with one plausible one.

The drive side pedal hits the ground and moves forward which rotates the wheel. He picks the bike up to lean against it. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

omri

Isn't there a place where if you put an empty can it rolls up the hill - maybe that's the spot...

Lusk_Doyle

Raam wrote: »

The drive side pedal hits the ground and moves forward which rotates the wheel. He picks the bike up to lean against it. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

No way that pedal moved.

fat bloke

Nonsense imo. Nary a ripple, let alone a wave.

Taxuser1

Ditto. Bounce effect maybe. Marginally.

CramCycle

My bike does that when I put it down, haven't reviewed the video in depth but nothing suspicious IMO

benjamin d

Is it just me or did he continue to pedal very awkwardly after the finish line until he lowered his hands to the bars?

Raam

benjamin d wrote: »

Is it just me or did he continue to pedal very awkwardly after the finish line until he lowered his hands to the bars?

Yes, cos he was knackered.

Nothing to see here apart from what people want to see.

Lusk_Doyle

Raam wrote: »

Yes, cos he was knackered.

Nothing to see here apart from what people want to see.

Deffo something there. You can see the strings!

Sarz91

I've watched a good few times now. There's a second there that the pedal hasn't touched the ground but the wheel is in mid air. The wheel isn't moving. It isn't until the pedal hits the ground, from the footage it looks like the pedal move slightly, that the wheel turns at all.

Darkglasses

Raam wrote: »

The drive side pedal hits the ground and moves forward which rotates the wheel. He picks the bike up to lean against it. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Well spotted. Definitely the case.

Darkglasses

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

No way that pedal moved.

He clearly leaves it down directly on the drive side crank.

Lusk_Doyle

Darkglasses wrote: »

He clearly leaves it down directly on the drive side crank.

I'm not disputing that but leaving it down on the pedal does not mean that the pedal will move. He placed the bike carefully imo. I don't think that it's clear from the slightly obscured pedal behind the photographer one way or the other anyway.

Btw - is this not doping speculation? Is this not against the rules?

Lusk_Doyle

Actually, I agree with Raam having looked at it again and again once more. Looks like the bike itself moves back but the crank moves forward inducing the wheel spin.

CramCycle

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Btw - is this not doping speculation? Is this not against the rules?

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