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Originally Posted by sendler
I think you are making way too much of the bulging shapes of the under belly to try to project that up into the entire streamline of a motorcycle fairing. The top of the airplane fuselage where the majority of the area is located doesn't look anything like that.
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Of course it doesn't look anything like that, because it's just a tube. There's not much more aerodynamically speaking that can be done to lower drag on a tube.
But for a bike, with wheels sticking out, we have to take into account rerouting the air around the wheels. Taking a cue from the airline industry as to how they route air around the base of the wings isn't "making too much" of anything... go with what the experts know.
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Ooh, just had a thought... the wheels are the wings, for a bike. The 'belly fairing' shape should be around the wheels to smooth airflow there.