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Old 03-29-2019, 07:05 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by 320touring View Post
Happily, some actual scientific research has been done into reducing the CD of the A2 by 3 well respected universities in the UK.


here's some slides from the University of Warwick that managed to reduce the drag efficiency of the already slippy A2 by 33%

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/re...view_may11.pdf
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/re...tion120221.pdf



Plenty potential ideas there ( may be worth exploring when it comes off the daily crawl through rush hr traffic with the Burd)
This is great information! Nothing we didn't already know, but someone having measured it is huge.
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