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Sean Costin a record holder in bicycle racing told me a story about how they added 70 pounds of weight to their streamliner for battle mountain a number of years ago.
Battle mtn has a 200 foot drop in the 5 miles of run up. About the limit of what the rules allow. They were hoping that the increase in weight would improve their top speed on the flat section 1km and 200m that follows. The gist of it was that their top speed was the same. No free lunch.
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– Noah Webster, 1787
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