View Single Post
Old 01-21-08, 07:30 PM
  #4  
Giro
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: USA
Posts: 501
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
See article on IceBike site

Go to IceBike

Conclusion is:
"If we take just the two big ticket items from the above list, Higher Air Density, and Less Aero Shape (drag) we have forces at work (and some numbers to back them up) that can account for 15 to 30 percent greater effort to maintain the same speed, or 15 to 30 percent reduction in speed."
Giro is offline