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Old 09-15-2011, 03:30 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Mythbusters: Is a bike greener than a car?

Was watching the boob tube and caught a commercial for a new episode of Mythbusters with something interesting... It looked like some sort of streamlined motorcycle.

Looked it up, it's an episode called Bikes and Bazookas:
Preview: Mythbusters-bikes-and-bullets
There's some footage of their streamlined bike on that link.

The premise seems to be testing whether cars or bikes produce lower emissions (I presume this is a question because bikes have better mpg but less pollution controls). Looks like they put it to an "ultimate" test by streamlining a bike.

However, to me it seems they add a TON of frontal area in the process. I've never seen a bike on the salt flats that looked like their creation...

Of course, no results at this point. Ya gotta wait for the episode to air later this month.

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