Bicycle drafting experiment

[Lazarus]

I love that movie. 60 mph in the small ring is pretty impressive.

[TimJFowler]

60 mph in the small ring is pretty impressive.

Yeah, I had to laugh at that little continuity / logic goof too. I think pushing 50+ mph on a bike would be hard enough in the big ring!

Tim

[Xringer]

Great video!! Too bad about the driver getting pulled over..

Humm, maybe I need to attach a 2x3 foot piece of wind load on the back of my wife's bike..?.
You know, so she gets a better workout, while creating a massive turbulence pipe!

[IndyIan]

Drafting on bikes is huge! My buddy and I in highschool used to draft cubevans or other big vehicles on a windy road near our place on our mountain bikes. We'd "ambush" them at a slow corner and then sprint to get in the wake... We could hold it to about 55km/h if they didn't accelerate too fast. Higher speeds than that, we would tire and get dropped on any slight uphill. Good fun when you are young and invincible!
We would also be dumbasses to lone roadies on the bikepath, drafting together we would pass them and then could beat most of them over a mile or 2... Not many reacted to really race but some would. Usually together we could stay ahead but I don't think we ran into any real serious riders, a sustained 30 mph sprint would've left us way back... No one got mad, it was just some impropto street racing!

[aerohead]

Way fun! Hoerner gave motorcycles and sky divers a Cd 0.90,not quite as bad as a sheet of plywood but not very slick.Bicyclists may not fair much better.Good reason for recumbants and enclosed bikes.

[eco_generator]

I love drafting on bikes. It's so cool when you just get sucked into the leaders rear tire. Great way to conserve energy.

[Xringer]

and this old thread got hit..

I'm still drafting with my bike. It's still fun!

I've learned that just a small head-wind can really tire you out,
Unless, you get a good woman to lead the way..

Some people think that aerodynamics aren't important at low speeds.
Let them go bike riding when it's windy out.

If something can be done to cut drag, it will help. Even at 10 MPH..

[bikin' Ed]

I have friends with tandems which are wicked fast on a good down hill. I like to draft the tandem, when I start to overtake them pull out ever so slightly and give a push to the back seat of the tandem, or the the small of the stoker's back. They then go faster and I can pull back into the slipstream. Our top speed to date: 63.5 mph

[Xringer]

"Our top speed to date: 63.5 mph"

Good Golly Miss Molly!!! That's Mass Turnpike speed!!

You will NEVER see me going anywhere near 1/2 that fast!!

Have you filled out your organ donation card??

[bikin' Ed]

I've agreed to donate organs, but crashing a bike at that speed might bang them up a bit.