Wow, Cancellara was really motoring up that climb, wasn't he?

tom boonen's "suffering" and "fighting the bike" is lightyears faster than I could go up that hill

Ahahahah the next video UKposts suggests me is "GCN - Are e-bikes fun? Road bike vs e-bike".

FYI, Boonen gained time on every other rider in the field in the Muur. That should give you some perspective on how fast Cancellara went up the climb.

I used to give cancellara the benefit of the doubt. But after discovering the very very sneaky second bike change I think its very unlikely he didnt do mechanical doping. Cancellara had a mechanical issue and did a first bike chance. The main mechanic jumps out of the car and gives him a new bike. A few km's later Breschel has a real issue and requests a new bike, but the main mechanic isnt in the car anymore resulting in Breschel getting the wrong bike, losing a lot of time and never returning to the front. A few km further the images show Cancellara suddenly sitting on his original bike. What happened, at the point where cancellara did his first bike change, the stage makes a loop. The mechanic had to walk 500 meter to get on the other part of the stage. What does amateur footage reveal. In a turn everybody where makes the short turn, Cancellara goes wide where the main mechanic is waiting with the original bike and you see Cancellara do a lightning bike swap. Its a sad thing but after all these years i am convinced Cancellara cheated.

This actually should be put to a scientific investigation. Physicists should calculate how much (more) power you need to output to build so much advantage in a couple seconds on a steep more than 10% (average I believe it was more than 10% at this very moment). Someone who cycle anything in his life and when put this into one's head knows exactly that this situation is just iconically ridiculous.

and there my grandson, the e-bike was born

100% motor can’t believe I didn’t saw it when I watched it live in 2010

It’s almost like cancellara has a hidden motor in his frame.

Cancellara had a very “special” bike that day. And also in Paris-Roubaix.

No one can convince me that he wasn't motorized, especially if you see also the video of Paris Roubaix of a week later...

La caméra écrase beaucoup l' image , mais pour l' avoir déja fait en VTT , c est un véritable mur , la pente est impressionnante !! Ce que fait Cancellarra est inhumain , quelque chose cloche et je m' etais deja fait la reflexion en direct

I will always remember this attack, because afterword, Tom Boonen said (paraphrasing): "I didn't have any problem there. I was riding well. When he attacked near the top, I was doing 900 watts, but he was still riding away. " (It turns out, Cancellara had a max power that day of 1450, probably during that attack)

Firstly, I am a great fan of Fabian Cancellara and think he was an exceptionally gifted and strong rider. But I have to admit that his performances during 2010 do cause questions to be asked. The featured extract of Cancellara attacking Tom Boonen [who is no slouch and an extremely strong rider himself] on the brutal climb of Muur van Geraardsbergen in the Tour of Flanders is simply staggering! And in the 2010 edition of the Paris-Roubaix [which had been raced a few weeks earlier] Cancellara had casually 'rode away' from a group of top quality riders 50k from the finish line to secure a solo victory. This was no second-string bunch made up of domestiques and also-rans. It included the likes of Sylvain Chavanel, Stuart O'Grady, Filippo Pozzato and again, Tom Boonen - all highly capable and experienced pros. According to Boonen himself, after recovering from the initial shock of Cancellara's audacious attack, the group started to work together and were travelling at 55kph. Even so, Cancellara was still going away from them! [by the end of the race he had put 4 minutes into his competitors!] To distance a chasing group of top guys all working together like that takes a remarkable effort. And the ease at which Cancellara did this does beggar belief.

Watching this back now, the way he moves his legs reminds me of how guys go along on e-bikes. Today, everyone would have figured it out, back then, e-bikes weren’t as common.

This is DOPE. both mechanical and medical.

Did Cancellara just put 30 seconds on Boonen in under a minute?

Thank you!

Madre mia Cancellara-Boonen tete a tete. Ataque impresionante en el mejor escenario posible. Momento mítico ya del ciclismo. Bestial. Ojalá vuelva a este nivel para 2015 y veamos una Vlaanderen espectacular. Espero ver a Wellens ahí en la pelea.

Cancellara "motors" ahead? I see what you did there.

I don't understand how people still aren't able to see the pure fraude shown here

Well..as a belgian who has followed pro cycling for 50 years now...I had never seen this kind of "acceleration" ..twice in a matter of 7 days...2010..both times Cancellara...1 in RVV...1 in Roubaix....What bothers me the most in RVV are his numerous bike changes...clearly they were planned and the exchanges were done to perfection. I have seen a ton of RVV and Roubaix.....and I can tell you that in these classics in full "finale" bike changes ONLY take place if something breaks on the original bike. Even pro's will tell ya....In Roubaix...well..yes..the group was looking at each other ..true..so if you reference his speed to those 3 or 4 riders it seems like he's flying...but I do not reference it at those 3-4...I just observe the sudden ( I mean like lightning quick) enormous increase in cadence ..even as he"s looking backward and the Boonen group not exactly going slow ( one long queue). Within seconds of what should be a huge effort he looks back and keeps it all looking just a little bit too smooth for me. BTW..companies have been experimenting with electrical "in frame" motors for years..one canadian company even has their setup with SRAM..lol......oops...coincidence or not. Am I against Cancellara ?...far from..I consider him half a flandrien and a beast indeed. But these 2 moments were "super human" or at least to this day that is how I remember them....because they seemed truly effortless. And I have seen hundreds of "demarrages" by equally talented one-day-classic riders in these 2 classics.....in all those I WITNESSED GREAT PHYSICAL EFFORT with a totally different body language.

I still remember watching this, screaming "BULLSHIT!"

That was bullshit. That gap was like 12 seconds after 20 seconds of racing. Boonen never cracked. Yeah, super suspicious.

I rode up the Muur myself this year for the first time and my respect for those guys just exploded…just like i did fighting these cobbles

He was speculated to have illegal support in his pedalling. Its so steep and yet he just sat on his saddle like nothing happened and then he looked down to his bike at the top of the climb.

This brings back memories of being dropped by an elderly woman on an e-bike with a couple of baguettes in her basket. Looks very similar.

Around 2.37, you can see Cancerella's doing something... right before he takes off. Funny how on the bits of the slope where EVERYONE else has to stand up in the saddle, Cancerella remains comfortably seated.

Impossible to give such a gap against a strong rider like Boonen

If anyone believes that, the reason is very simple, they have never pedal in their life. And especially on cobblestone and worst up a wall at almost 20%

It's very clear what he does at 2:37. The gradient gets steeper, Boonen starts to feel it, Cancellara changes down a gear, his cadence increases and he doesn't need to get out of the saddle.

how did he do that? unbelievable

Didn’t know about motor in the bike could exist at that moment and as i was watching this i said to my self : how is he accelerating so fast with Boonen fighting with is bike , the rest is history!

It should be pretty easy to estimate the power for the attack by comparing his time to one of the Strava segments and that rider's power and weight. It's so steep that the environmental variables are probably negligible. I can try but it might take me a while since I know nothing about that climb.

2:35

This is at least suspicious. Boonen is dying on his bike meanwhile Cancellara pedals away easily.

He starts the engine in the minute 2:18. The pedal changes completely.

Sings: Things that make you go 'hmmmmmmm'

impossible de tourner les jambes comme ça !!!

Sapete dirmi che marca aveva di motore elettrico Cancellara...

My god what a performance. What a massive gap. Opened up in a matter of seconds.

Everything clear to see.....motor use. This bike doping really gets ridicolous.

De muur has to come back to the race!!!! Much more exciting.

i very hope that the uci will the muur take to the race it belongs back. here's a german friend of the muur, theres no ronde without it...

That is a f*cking shame. 100% motor

"Prepare for LUDICROUS SPEED."

Wow. You can see why folks think he was motorized. That little flick of the fingers of his right hand as he rode away at 2:37 was saying, "Bye, Tom!"

Cancellara's bikes were quite particular ...

Cancellara pioche déjà aux pied du mur dans la roue de Boonen et la différence est trop importante quand il attaque

Was that the year Fabian won on ZIpp 303? Boonen seems still old fashioned on wheels at the time.

Doped bike

Look the cancellara's right hand at 2:36.

miss Dave Harmon so much

He made that gap in seconds, whilst Boonen was still going pretty quickly, not possible with out a motor.

Phil Gaimon brought me here!

カンチェのアタック凄すぎ😊 ボーネンの名勝負数え歌ww

So in 60 seconds (give or take a few seconds) the guy pulled away around 250 meters, he's moving 4 meters PER SECOND FASTER than the other guy- in other words a good 9mph quicke- that's quite a big difference in speed.

Cancelara 100 rpm in Gramont 😂

Oliver Naesen has the current Muur strava record at 2 minutes 50 during the binck banck tour when he was off peak. Here Boonen and cancellara hit the Muur at 20 seconds and boonen summits at around 3:25 which is around 3 minutes on boonens side. Not putting it past cancellara in his prime to have done 2:40ish then extended his gap in the downhill without a motor.

Electrical motor Cancellara?

Fabian Cancellectric

After this ride, they added E-bike on Strava.

Why doesn’t someone do a theoretical calculation on the amount of power put down by Cancellara? It would show that 30 seconds gap on Boonen is impossible.

@MortalShowdown That could be a good explanation

Unreal.

Motor in the frame

Had Cancellara an E-bike?🔋

I bought it then as a massive Cancellara fan. Today? Not so much. I've watched a lot of RvV since and this just looks unnatural.

The day of the motor 🛵

Did they have motors and batteries small enough to fit in the seat tube back in those days?

Cancelara.was working harder in the beginning of the climb the he was on the steep part while attacking.

Is that Dave Harmon commentating with Kelly?

He turned up gas alright

Is this the race when Cancellara changed his bike 3-4 times? Wonder why!! The attack looks very unnatural given the fact that he must have produced well over 1000w sitting in the sadle.

Motor engin worked well.

No matter how good you are, if you put in a sudden acceleration on a steep upslope on the cobbles, the bike will sway. I have no idea how Cancellara violated basic laws of physics here.

On lui a toujours pas retiré ses titres au motard suisse ?

Sadly you'll never see a better example of motor doping.

Boonen looked quite fresh and comfortable until Cancellara just suddenly accelerates with inhuman speed without going out of the saddle. Meanwhile Boonen is sprinting after him with also impressive speed, he clearly has energy left but he can't sprint that fast. At the top Boonen is already 30 seconds behind. Seems totally legit folks

1450w? Which brand is his bike's engine? 😂

Y a pas à dire c'est efficace le moteur !!!!!!

Check out Cancellara's right hand at 2:37 ... ;)

Ghost in the machine

The unfamous hidden motor!

Look at his left hand at 2.37 min.

Cancellara had a smaller gear - that's huge, and if they were equal, Cancellara would have won because of it. But they were not equal, Cancellara was, a this time, better.

Amazing climb and E -bike 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

There's far more convincing evidence elsewhere in cycling of mechanical "doping" (Hesjedal). I see the tactic of burning up Boonen in the first part, forcing him to lead for a bit then crushing him on the final part. And I see Cancellara shifting up as he launches his attack, nothing more. He is a beast, no question.

2:35 he turns on the motor. There is no way he puts a gap in like that on a rider like Boonen, cramps or no cramps. This is not natural. There is no way to push that kind of wattage, it's physically impossible. Not to mention just watching the video, it's obvious. Cancellara did this too many times, unbelievable he was never caught.

Boonen vs. cancellara These days van Der poel vs. van ert Classic specialists. excellent races

Cancellara.. bike strip down would be interesting...

C'est bien Spart'accu son surnom ?

it was not for nothing that he had a mechanical groupet the bateri and the engine would not have entered the vertical tube, which more is obliged to mounted sitting in the wall if the wheel sliding

Again 2:38 what happens with the right hand?? Not a gear change but it is interesting in that year how before acceleration in Flanders and Roubaix he touches the same area on the bike.

Right hand at 2:37...nun said!

Post bike change

Cancellara with E-Bike

There is no proof that he used mechanical doping. But I can't believe that Bonen couldn't answer Cancellara. They had been riding together and for one moment Cancellara said good-bye. Sitting on the saddle by the way... That was very strange. I like Spartacus and I don't want to believe that his victory was unfair.

He was turning the gas Ho yes

Anyone realized at this moment Fabian is riding a pair of Zipp 303 and Boonen is still on the aluminum? For a zipp owner, I can say those are some of the nicest designed wheels, particularly when it gets a bit bumpy.