Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbnccv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbnccv!keesan From: keesan@bbnccv.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: How To Make Your Bicycle Faster (and set a new hour record) Message-ID: <58@bbnccv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 18:21:56 EDT Article-I.D.: bbnccv.58 Posted: Wed Jun 26 18:21:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:00:48 EDT References: <1644@reed.UUCP> <8300004@ada-uts.UUCP> <330@varian.UUCP> Reply-To: keesan@bbnccv.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 Keywords: streamlining Actually, among the best ways to make your bicycle faster are the various things you can do in the way of streamlining -- e.g. adding fairings. Wind resistance is very significant in slowing you down. Unfortunately, if you race you're rather limited in this area, since the various organizing bodies that sponsor racing worldwide are rather stick-in-the-mud when it comes to radical technological advance. There was an excellent article on this subject in Scientific American a year or two ago. The cover of the issue has a picture of a very streamlined two-person human-powered pedaled vehicle -- I don't remember whether it was a bicycle or something with more wheels. -- Morris M. Keesan keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA {decvax,ihnp4,etc.}!bbncca!keesan