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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
John Tetz makes whole velomobile bodies from Zote foam, and after riding inside a Coroplast drum, I'd do the same. I have excellent suspension, but the body also needs isolation from road rumble, a far higher frequency. That's why car sub-frames are rubber mounted, as well as all the suspension bits.
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I used packing foam sheet, gorilla tape, coroplast, c-clips, and zip ties to mount mine. The foam sheet went around the steel frame and steel seat mounting posts in 8 locations and had gorilla tape wrapped around them, with coroplast wrapped around the foam with holes in the coroplast to fit c-clips and mil-spec 75-lb zip-ties.
It made for a very quiet and pleasant ride even going downhill at 45-50 mph over small road imperfections. This lasted for over 10,000 miles until I took the body off last month.