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Old 05-18-2009, 04:52 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Now THAT's a fairing!

Is this the kind of fairing ANYONE puts on anything on the street? Was OP gonna do something like this? I wonder if x-wind issues kept it from acceptance?

99.9% of fairings don't taper in before cutting off, thus not qualifying for "Kamm" status.

Just think if that Honda had a nice tail section too.

The Britten racer had kind of a "non-fairing" design. Cycle World in '92 had an article describing the aero theory of it. Supposedly it was the best around. Didn't necessarily go for ultimate smoothness, but frontal area reduction.

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