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04-20-25 | 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart

I fail to believe that having the drive on the LH side would be any more aero than its being on the RH side. If anything having only left turns on a track it seems to me that a RH drive would be more in the aero shadow than on the LH side. Andy

I know this is an old thread, but it just popped up, so hear me out - on a regular track, wouldn't the outer side of the bike (the RHS) be traveling marginally faster than the inner side of the bike (the LHS), and therefore anything you could do to minimize drag on the RHS (eg. by moving the drivetrain to the LHS) would reduce the overall drag of the bike. Now let's discuss angels dancing on heads of pins

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