Something for Bicyclists!
 

...found this chart and thought it might be useful to our bicyclists!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_urSQl6wUA5...drag_chart.jpg

ol tele man.....
your on a tear today!!!!! :eek: :thumbup:

The partial fairing , riding crouched has ~ .70 cd
as compared to just riding crouched ~ .83 cd


I might make one of the little fairings for my Quintana roo Traiatholon bike I am slowly building.

Yes, this is from the now famous article in Scientific American Dec. 1983 on human powered vehicles. I have been designing fairings for upright bikes for a number of years with the goal of selling plans online. Search for images of 'upright bicycle fairings'. I posted a pic in the Alternative Transportation section some time ago. We share data with the motorcycle people since a mountain bike is about 7/8 the size of a motorcycle.

Unfaired lowracers (velocraft nocom, etc) are conspicuously absent...

I've started saving up for the moon bike. I hope it's a 100 speed gear set.

+1

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/f...psf947f8c8.jpg

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200 mph on lunar surface
 

I think one of the AeroVironment guys said that a bike on the Moon would be good for 200 mph.

There's a reason why recumbents are illegal in the Tour de France.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...95955147_n.jpgbeen there done that