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Old 11-23-24 | 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by RChung
Second, the right bag of the right size and right shape *could* be more aero if it acted like a fairing. That's entirely plausible, it's an interesting idea, and what Jan was claiming: that his handlebar bag had those properties. But it turned out that his experiment was poopy. A friend and I pointed out the error. Jan deleted our comments from his blog post, which is his right. So I don't usually bother reading his blog anymore.
Again, a rather un-sciency thing to do.

Whenever anyone (including one or two people in this thread) says of Heine, "But he's got a PhD!", let's remember that (1) he doesn't share his data, (2) he deletes critiques, and (3) even a lousy scientist can spot the glaring methodological problems in the things he calls "experiments."

None of this means that the whole "planing" is idea incorrect, per se...But to the extent that people take such ideas seriously because Heine seems all scientifical, well, those folks are kind of being hoodwinked.
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