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E bikes in Triathlon

TriFirst · 2019-01-03 10:44:20

I'm wondering if Triathlon ireland are going to start checking competitors' bikes to see if they are electric or not. Up till now it was fairly visible as to whether a bike was an ebike but with new models such as the Orbea Gain D 40 electric road bike, its becoming very difficult to distinguish newer generation ebikes…

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03-01-2019 11:44am

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TriFirst

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I'm wondering if Triathlon ireland are going to start checking competitors' bikes to see if they are electric or not. Up till now it was fairly visible as to whether a bike was an ebike but with new models such as the Orbea Gain D 40 electric road bike, its becoming very difficult to distinguish newer generation ebikes from standard road bikes especially during the cursory checks done by volunteers on entering transition.

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