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Old 10-09-2011, 11:03 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Arragonis View Post
Not just head winds, side winds are pretty bad too.
A partial side wind can even be worse than a direct headwind because it is increasing the effective frontal area of the vehicle as well as the wind speed. There are some other threads which discuss this quite well.

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