[willcipriano]

Just show up one day and your bike has an unexplained button on it that makes you go fast?

[brookst]

Sure, for training purposes. You know, on a long ride, you don’t want to overdo it. Of course, the actual race bike needs the button for verisimilitude, and it would be a big mistake if a batter was left in, and…

[kelseyfrog]

Surely there are certain logistics, like making sure it's charged before the race, or asking, "wouldn't I perform better by losing the extra weight?" being brought up before, no?

[recursive]

There's a UCI minimum weight for competition bikes at 6.8kg. We can't remove the button, as that would put us under the weight limit.

[kelseyfrog]

That's funny. Thank you for explaining it

[to11mtm]

Even as far back as 2005-2006 there were stories of riders taping wrenches to bikes to get to the requisite weight, it's not even a new thing per se.

[recursive]

I've heard stories of freezing ice inside the seatpost. It will stay frozen long enough to pass the pre-race weigh-in, but melt away before the start of the big climb.