Road and MTB Racing coming for e-bikes

[flecc]

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Here's the link.
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[anotherkiwi]

Are we going to enter SW? Will dongles be allowed? So many possibilities...

Now if they would only un-ban recumbents...

 

[flecc]

Now if they would only un-ban recumbents...

You've got the national and international HPVAs for that.

If the UCI is to adopt recumbents, the HPVAs will have to relinquish any claim to control recumbent sport.
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[Gubbins]

Are we going to enter SW? Will dongles be allowed? So many possibilities...

Now if they would only un-ban recumbents...

Its bike racing, not playing dodgems with pedestrians..

 

[Deleted member 4366]

I wonder how they're going to regulate power? There's a chance that we might get some exceptionally powerful 250w motors. Maybe the organisers will control and regulate the batteries.

 

[Gubbins]

I wonder how they're going to regulate power? There's a chance that we might get some exceptionally powerful 250w motors. Maybe the organisers will control and regulate the batteries.

The best way would be to set the race distance to further than or at the limit of the battery so the racers will have to ride strategically.

 

[Wheel-E]

It might be good if they regulated the controller the most, encouraging battery and motor tech to advance.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

IIRC, the electric racing cars have some sort of transmitting wattmeter, and if they go over a certain power, they're penalised. Mind you, a bit of solder on the shunt would soon fix that.

 

[danielrlee]

It might be good if they regulated the controller the most, encouraging battery and motor tech to advance.

I'd say the opposite is true. If you look at the top end of what is available for all three technologies, it is the controller that is the current bottleneck. There are bicycle motors that can take tens of kW and batteries that have no problem dumping similar amounts of power, but controllers are struggling to keep up. They are limited by silicon power densities of current MOSFET tech, which IMO would benefit the most from advancements in race tech development.

EDIT: The above point ignores the fact that in this instance, a race bike series would exist for the purpose of promoting ebikes within the EU. This being the case, we can count on technical limits being based on current EU pedelec laws. As a result, I doubt such prohibitive rules would promote tech advancement at all.