Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!drutx!druri!jhs From: jhs@druri.UUCP (ShoreJ) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: regarding aerodynamic wheels Message-ID: <1114@druri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 16:57:58 EDT Article-I.D.: druri.1114 Posted: Mon Jul 1 16:57:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:46:21 EDT References: <2934@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 29 {If these queries have been posted before, be patient: send money, not flames.} Are there any commercially available means to add disks to your wheels? Seems like it would be possible to add disks to existing wheels, providing there's some reasonable way to fasten them securely (and without jeopardizing the basic structural integrity of the wheels because of drilling through the rims, etc.). Any comments/suggestions/sources? Along related lines (aerodynamic ones :-)): Has anyone had experience with the Zzipper fairing? Ads claim 20% drag reduction (at 20 mph?). A newer one that I saw advertised in the latest Bicycling, the Aero(?), claims only 10% reduction, has provision for a headlight mount, leaves the hands exposed to the windstream, and appears stiffer (and, yes, I did see the graph provided in the Scientific American article on bike aerodynamics last year). What can I say, I'm a heretic and want to mount disks and/or fairing--on both my tourer--a Libertas--and my Gios (gasp!) {mea culpa, mea culpa....} Again, comments/suggestions/sources/experiences (most important, that last)? Thanx. Jeff Shore @ ..!druri!jhs (303) 538-4195 or 457-4420 ************************ "Ackph!" -- Bill the Cat ************************