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Old 03-06-2014, 03:33 AM   #42 (permalink)
PeterS
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Originally Posted by Teri_TX View Post



I've had similar thoughts about manually deployed spoilers but Vetter lives in a place where it's an everyday problem. Where I live, the winds blow fairly consistently about 15-25 mph from the south and the roads are not very twisty. Vetter also experiences rapidly switching direction winds as well. Getting caught with your spoilers not deployed could be exciting (in a not good way!)


-- Teri
Riding in traffic cross winds are very variable, an 18 wheeler blocks it then moves on and the cross wind comes back, the same vehicle generate wind themselves and if your bike is sensitive to differential air pressure ... (please don't call it suction!) things can get very hairy. If I want to go the 160 km / 100 miles to my nearest city I'm on a freeway and right in the middle of 70mph traffic , heavy vehicles and lots of turbulent air .

Peter
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