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Cd · 09-09-2015, 08:20 PM

I was waiting for the doctor ( just under three hours ) and had some time to look over the magazines there.
The headlines on the cover said " worlds fastest bike ".

But it was a bicycle not a HPV ... and not the Velox3.

I was just wondering why it is that so much effort and expense* go into improving the aerodynamics, when a simple fairing would cut the drag in half !
Why spend over ten times the cost of a standard bicycle frame, shave your legs to cut drag, etc, when a simple piece of bent cardboard would drastically reduce drag ?

( *the bicycle costs $ 12,000 dollars

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Cd Ultimate Fail Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Austin,Texas Posts: 3,585 Thanks: 2,872 Thanked 1,121 Times in 679 Posts	Why streamline bicycles vs. just add a fairing ? I was waiting for the doctor ( just under three hours ) and had some time to look over the magazines there. The headlines on the cover said " worlds fastest bike ". But it was a bicycle not a HPV ... and not the Velox3. I was just wondering why it is that so much effort and expense* go into improving the aerodynamics, when a simple fairing would cut the drag in half ! Why spend over ten times the cost of a standard bicycle frame, shave your legs to cut drag, etc, when a simple piece of bent cardboard would drastically reduce drag ? ( the bicycle costs $ 12,000 dollars* ! )