Originally Posted by
thechemist
sweet opportunity for sure! Keep us posted
yeah...the problem is that my kid started school and i've been traveling for racing. my buddy @ specialized invited me, and i made the mistake of telling my wife it would be a little vacation to norcal. turns out they are doing some construction so it will be a bit shorter notice, and that doesn't work so well for my wife and kid. (i'm pretty flexible as i'd drive, but last-minute airfare from here (nowhere) to cali basically doesn't exist at any sane price.)
so.... we haven't yet resolved how i'm going to go. we'll see. i want to go in the fall not the winter. maybe it won't happen or i'll have to wait until spring/summer.
Originally Posted by
furiousferret
A few years ago there was a post on ST about aerodynamics and an illustration of how the air reacts to a round cable vs one with a aerodynamic tail. The round cable wreaked havoc on the air and the tail was smooth. Considering hair acts the same way its almost like have a bunch of micro brakes. This probably isn't some revelation that I've came up with alone, I just doubt engineers considered how big of an actual impact it made.
I'm curious to see follow up testing as well.
ever see that old (NASA, i think?) drawing about various shapes and their associated drag? round objects, even if small, can have more drag than much larger aero shapes. it's kind of interesting; stuff like a round cable in the wind costs one more than one might think. no, not huge amounts, but surprisingly large for what it is.
that illustration is from, i think, the 1960s but still holds true.