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Old 09-12-10 | 04:21 AM
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Bikes: '06 Surly Pugsley, '14 Surly Straggler, '88 Kuwahara Xtracycle, '10 Motobecane Outcast 29er, '?? Surly Cross Check (wife's), '00 Trek 4500 (wife's), '12 Windsor Oxford 3-speed (dogs')

I haven't done this in a while (haven't had a speedometer/cycling computer for years, last one was on a bike that was stolen :/ ), but I remember a measurable difference between sitting fully upright, no-handed; and riding forward, hands on the bars. Perhaps wind resistance makes more of difference than you think. The prevalence of wind fairings on land-speed record bikes would seem to indicate such.
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