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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Drag coefficient
Message-ID: <199@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 08:19:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  8 08:19:16 1984
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Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center, LA CA
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    The comments about special drag-reducing paint on aircraft 
    [...] towards the end of one of these exercises that a clean bike
    goes faster, and I'm afraid he said it to me often enough that I
    began to believe it, rationalizing about drag coefficients.  I'd
    like to hear what others think.

Well yes, a very clean and waxed bike will have a lower coefficient of
drag that a dirty bike.  Unfortunatly the primary component of aerodynamic
drag on a motorcycle is parasitic drag (rider, handle bars, engine,&tc.).
I suspect that washing and waxing a bike makes no detectable difference.
-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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