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Old 09-06-10 | 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver
If you are hauling gravel I will assume that your speed is not that high and that your bike is geared relatively low so there is not much to gain from adding a fairing except additional weight.
Yeah, I keep the speed down with the gravel. Actually, I swapped out the fairing for a 4 gallon bucket. The yellow bike has a Sturmey-Archer three speed hub, and the wheels are twenty inch. This makes for low Cg, and a low gear-inch ratio.
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