Originally Posted by
rpeterson
I gave it a shot recently myself and came up with very similar results to the wind tunnel test, do you have any links to anyone who gave it a try? I'd like to see what exactly they were doing.
No, I just have it second hand. In the video, the wind tunnel experimenters also expressed surprise believing that there would be no result worth reporting.
ps, speaking personally I
don't know whether leg hair causes 1-3% drag as in this test, or almost nothing as the "conventional wisdom" would have it. I'm glad to hear that your test corroborates this wind tunnel test, and to me all of this points to a need for closer examination. That's a significant bit of drag from a roadie perspective.