Take that you anti-car people, and anti-anti-car people, and bananas. You'll never live in a sustainable way, cloning yourself before you die in your super-duper cloning machine you made from twigs, plastic bottle caps, and other non-sustainable sustainable purple. Yeah... Man, I haven't slept in ~32 hours. And I should probably put some car free content in this like the totaly pimpin' completely mind-blowingly seemingly awesome
Varna "Diablo", faster than superman on kryptonite. and sleeker than
El Pollo Diablo, able to go over over 80mph on a single leg stroke, repeated several times. Now I was thinking, "why does google's image search for El Pollo Diablo turn up a Lemon Jelly cd cover, Strange forces at work"... I was also thinking "holy mother of god, look at those drag and rolling resistance numbers of the Varna "Diablo", that things is sweet". Then I was all like, "wait, I can compare my the fuel efficiency of my VW Rabbit to the Varna "Diablo" in a more or less accurate manner now that I have concrete numbers on it." So I was all, "e" to the "pi" "i" equals "oo" "e", "oo" "ah" "ah", "ting" "tang" "walla" "walla" "-1". And bam, I figure if the Varna "Diablo"'s reference area (it's width specifically) is increased by six inches, it's lenth is increased by a couple feet, and a 10hp (15-20 peoplepower at vmax) ~100lb diesel with appropriate gearing is dropped in ahead of the front wheel, it'll get ~1300mpg when compared to my VeeDub which gets 50mpg. Now you're'll 'ike, "No way dood, you can't compare those two engines, that's like not koscher." But gentle reader, I've seen the specific fuel consumption graphs of both engines, and can tell you that they are both in the range of ~230g/hp*hr. So gentle reader, in your face, how you like those apples to apples? And no, adding length will not decrease efficiency because as we all know, only the area perpendicular to air flow effects fluid drag. O.k. now where am I going? Image this vehicle, but with ~.5-1ft wider, and a few feet longer. It'll have the same human powered gearing/setup it has now, but in the extended section in front it will have room for either a small ~1.5ftx1.5ft/150lbs 10hp diesel, or extra cargo space with no diesel engine. It should weigh in at around 70-80lbs with no engine, maybe less with carbon fiber bodywork, and ~200lbs with engine. It should be capable of well over 1000mpg@55mph with the diesel engine on constantly, and far more if driven efficiently, i.e. I can go visist family 300 miles away in the same time it takes me by car, or I can go to the store or work 10miles away without the engine. And you know what, for round trips it will hands down be faster than any other bike on round trips (barring extremely dense urban/hilly areas) because every round trip is like riding someplace with a net altitude change of zero baby. That means that going down and up and around and "wash. rinse. repeat." back home is like riding the same distance on level ground. And on level ground the easy to use, commuter version of the Varna "Diablo" will absolutely own any other bike. If you can cruise at 15mph on your schwinn 3 speed, with this bike you can probably cruise at 40mph with the same effort, aerodynamic drag owns j00, even if you don't want to admit it. In conclusion, I'm tired. baa-naa-naa, banana.