monty wrote:
Hey listen everyone, i think wind tunnel testing is the tits. And just like pool testing for wetsuits and skins it is the best possible place to eliminate as much noise as you can to get any meaningful results. I think tunnel tests should be done on all this new stuff. My point is that i'm very leery when someone says this or that will take 4 minutes or 10 minutes off your bike times.monty, expressing something in minutes is akin to expressing it in grams of drag. It's simply a unit of measure, not a value judgement. The stipulation is "all things being equal".
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This has been going on since the first bike went into the tunnel. If you add up all the savings that aero shit is supposed to give you, then guys should be well under 4 hours in hawaii.Well, that's where the "all things being equal" comes in. Some changes are incompatible with others. You can't stack them all up. It's not a purely additive sum.
But in general, wind tunnel testing has pretty much fulfilled its promise. I'll leave you with the quote that my friend, Jim Martin, often uses:
Laurent Fignon wrote:
Greg [Lemond] believes he can win, but it is impossible. I am too strong in the mind and the legs. Fifty seconds is too much to make up in such a short distance.AndyF
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