"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - aero advantage

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chipcom
03-20-09, 08:45 PM
As I ponder another handful of races this year, I can't help but wonder what I can do to finally beat little Sally, the girl on the Barbie bike with the streamers who rides on the sidewalk alongside the RATL course.

I could do intervals, but I am too lazy.

I could loose weight, but I like to eat too much.

I could buy a new carbon fiber wonder...a RED one, but the economy sucks.

So I'm thinking I can get more aero. Of course my gut gets in the way of back going any more than a 90 degree angle to the ground...so I need to get more aero without having to reduce my wind profile.

I'm thinking of buying a skin suit and doing Botox....whaddya all think?

procrit
03-20-09, 08:50 PM
Skin suit will squeeze you too much causing large bulges in the midsection, which is less aero. Botox will smooth out the wrinkles so the flow of air will be a bit more laminar, so that may work.
cslone
03-20-09, 08:52 PM
Dimples ARE aero.

chipcom
03-20-09, 08:53 PM
Skin suit will squeeze you too much causing large bulges in the midsection, which is less aero. Botox will smooth out the wrinkles so the flow of air will be a bit more laminar, so that may work.

How about a corset?
wanders
03-20-09, 08:54 PM
Dimples ARE aero.

Learn to ride backwards?
chipcom
03-20-09, 08:55 PM
Learn to ride backwards?

Rectal Cranial Inversion position....BRILLIANT!
dmb2786
03-20-09, 09:13 PM
wut
DScott
03-20-09, 09:23 PM
Pay somebody skinny and fast to ride as you?

P.S. I'm not angling for the job, as I'm neither.
unterhausen
03-20-09, 11:38 PM
Elizabeth Taylor recommended dysentery as a diet plan. A number of the women at work have had surgery so they could eat just as much but lose weight. The first one lost about 80 pounds, and then it was a rush to sign up for the procedure.
pidda
03-21-09, 12:11 AM
just sit up and think of the gut as a "body fairing". instant aero justification for eating some more.
gsteinb
03-21-09, 04:59 AM
I think you should focus on the important stuff. Like the difference between 'loose' and lose.
umd
03-21-09, 07:32 AM
Lipo?
San Rensho
03-21-09, 08:10 AM
Elizabeth Taylor recommended dysentery as a diet plan. A number of the women at work have had surgery so they could eat just as much but lose weight. The first one lost about 80 pounds, and then it was a rush to sign up for the procedure.

Tapeworms are also very effective, but hard to get rid of after you reach your desired weight.
chipcom
03-21-09, 08:54 AM
I think you should focus on the important stuff. Like the difference between 'loose' and lose.

Oh my, lookie what I hooked! :lol: