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Originally Posted by sendler
I see now that you mean to taper the sides so they are narrower in the back. By "straight sided" I had assumed that you meant parallel. The Vetter tails are tapered at 16 degrees and flat sided just like your truncated tail that you are showing.
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I guess I should have labelled the model .... it is tapered the 16 degrees as per the Vetter form but without the curve. The sides are flat .... but not parallel.
Thus some increase in drag is likely but far less side lift.
The side lift is something that worries me a great deal, the winds were i ride are extremely variable and if i ride on main roads or freeways the are a large number of very large trucks of the huge moving van variety.
Side lift could easily toss me into the path of another vehicle.
As little side lift as possible is preferable, even at the cost of drag..