The International Cycling Union (UCI) will use X-ray equipped trucks to detect riders who secretly add motors to their bikes in big races like the Tour de France.
X-ray cameras will check bikes after stages of the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta and the five biggest one-day races.
The UCI has made the fight against what it calls "technological fraud" one of its top priorities under new president David Lappartient.
Former professional rider Jean-Christophe Peraud of France, who finished second in the 2014 Tour, was named "manager of Equipment and the Fight against technological fraud" by the UCI last November.
In 2016, Belgian rider Femke van den Driessche was banned for six years by the UCI in the first case of 'motorised doping' in cycling.
Van den Driessche, who was caught at the cyclo-cross world championships in Belgium, denied knowing that the bike broke the rules, and said it belonged to her friend.
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