Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Drag coefficient Message-ID: <2216@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:09:36 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.2216 Posted: Fri Mar 9 01:09:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 06:52:03 EST References: <578@u1100a.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 7 A clean bike would go (marginally) faster if you were going at the maximum speed allowed by engine power. Light airplanes are flown this way all the time - the power output is set to some specific target, and then you see what airspeed you get. And it is known that the usual accumulation of bugs, dirt, and bird droppings on the plane's surface will reduce its speed by several knots over that of a plane with a clean, waxed skin.