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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
A faired bike is NOT necessarily more aero! I have a Cycle World article with wind tunnel test data from several styles of bikes. What do you have?
AND it's NOT comparable to a Kamm back. Think about what makes a Kamm back a Kamm back and get back to us.
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I have pictures of those old salt flat bikes with front fairings. Of course a bike can be low-drag enough in the front that adding a fairing and increasing frontal area increases drag. But what does that have to do with what you said about the big problems being at the rear?
What makes a kamm back a kamm back is the rearward decrease in cross section that is truncated... Just like some front end fairings.
My point is that a kamm backed vehicle doesn't have a boat tail like your "teardrops" but a void space in the back, and an aerodynamic front because front end aero matters.
Should this bike do away with the front fairing? Notice the tapered flanks BTW
