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Old 09-14-05, 03:37 PM
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There is an updated 3rd edition of Bicycling Science, published by the MIT Press, a publisher of academic books and journals (which currently employs my dear wife as an assistant editor).

There's not a lot known about what causes rolling resistance. It's now commonly believed to be largely a function of sidewall deformation, but the impact of various environmental influences on that resistance is very little studied. So we know what it is, but we can't predict it.
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