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Old 05-16-2020, 12:23 PM   #37 (permalink)
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I did the same to my car. It is crazy how much the VW seat backs weigh. It has enough structure to hold the middle passenger seat belt with the other seat back folded. I can carry my bicycle inside instead of out in the airflow.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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