Originally Posted by lvleph
Haven't been asked yet if someone can tag along. I even said something like, "I have been out for 4 hours so I am going to be slow." Person stayed behind me while we climbed a 4 mile hill. Which kind of bugged me, because I would have like a little bit of that draft.
Can you really draft going up a 4-mile hill? I would think you'd be going too slow to really appreciate a draft.
Also, from a scientific perspective, how close does the following cycle have to be in order to really get the benefit of a draft? I would think that if it's more than a few inches, the wind is going to rush around the lead rider and close back up, hitting the following rider just like it would have ordinarily.