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Old 04-22-20 | 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by TrojanHorse
Your own movement generates apparent wind, which is why people grouse about a head way both ways on a ride.
It’s not that your movement generates wind, your movement is shoving air out of the way. The air is just minding its own business until you come along and bash it out of the way. Think of yourself as a TrojanHorse or amishboy51 sized battering ram.

Poor air molecules.
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