Originally Posted by
Racer Ex
There's more there, but I didn't have the time or inclination to go through the full protocol, I have it written out but stored on another computer. My field stuff (coastdowns) are very tightly constrained and I've gotten comparative differentials that were backed up by the tunnel, been using max speed logged on an SRM set to record at 0.5 secs. Field stuff is always the poor stepchild to the tunnel, but it beats looking at pictures
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Yes, the eye is a poor estimator of drag.
Speaking of speed recording with a SRM, have you ever seen a value for speed of, say, 40.1 km/h (as opposed to 40.0 or 40.2 km/h)?