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Old 01-10-2008, 11:42 PM   #9 (permalink)
newtonsfirstlaw
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The Mighty Mira - '92 Daihatsu Mira
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Originally Posted by trebuchet03 View Post
Newton, if you haven't seen this already...
adventures of greg has an awesome wattage break down for many velo's in production and not.... Alas, the page appears to not work - but google cache had it (in link)...
Yes, that's where I got the 37 km/h figure from.

Note that my point with the 50km/h stat is that to compare apples to apples, I estimated air resistance as all of the resistance, and so 150W * (50/37)^3 = 370W. So by that measure, the WAW should have 67% of the CdA of the Quest.
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