Originally Posted by Dan333SP

I have no respect for current or former doper of any variety, but I get your point.

I think people are more willing to give EPO/whatever biological dopers a pass after they've served their bans because they assume everyone else is doing it too, and they're still pushing the pedals after training their butts off.

This is just so much more blatant because it's literally powering the bike with a battery rather than just some doped-out legs.

I'm not saying the penalty should be any more harsh than what an EPO user gets, but it does "feel" more unfair than bio-doping. Unfortunately we're all super-desensitized to biodoping positive results now, and so many people have come back from suspensions and picked up where they left off, but this motor thing is entirely new territory.