With the absence of Marianne Vos, who will start her 'cross season late (probably in December), Compton may have an 'easy' ride although British and European champion Helen Wyman, Sophie de Boer, Sanne Cant and Nikki Harris are not here just to race for second place. Van der Haar, riding on home soil, will have a total of 12 Belgian riders to battle off on the testing course overlooked by the ruins of Valkenburg Castle and his task will be a tough one. However, it is very likely that she would have had assistance in fitting such a specialist device.LARS van der Haar and Katie Compton begin the defence of their UCI World Cup crowns today on the Cauberg hillside above the pretty Limburg tourist town of Valkenburg. Van den Driessche is the only person named in the UCI Disciplinary Hearing's statement. "Any bikes fitted with such technology have been modified by third parties with no involvement from the Wilier factory." "The Wilier factory does not, and never has supplied bikes or frames fitted with a concealed motor, not ever," said Wilier in a statement. > Everything you need to know about the motorised doping scandal Wilier was quick to distance itself from the incident, saying that it only provides 'off-the-shelf framesets' to the Belgian team. The bike was made to look like a regular Wilier cyclo-cross bike. The UCI used a magnetic resonance scanner to detect the presence of the motor in Van den Driessche's bike, which was located in the pit area during the under-23 women's race. Vivax also produces a complete carbon-fibre road bike with the system already fitted (see video below), retailing for €5,649 (£4,375).
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