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Aero position - uphill
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Hi. Watching the Giro on telly, it's a TT with a steep long hill.

Although they are riding relatively slowly the riders are doing the hill in the aero position on the tri bars.

My understanding was that aero becomes less important the slower you are traveling. Is there a speed at which it's negligible?
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Re: Aero position - uphill [urban_spaceman] [ In reply to ]
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Not sure, but below 22 km/h is What I have heard
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Re: Aero position - uphill [urban_spaceman] [ In reply to ]
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Going up the hills they were going as slow as 11km/h

Assume your CDA 0.2 in aero and .35 sitting up

Aero watts at that speed would be .5 * airdensity * cda * v^3 (assume no wind)

So at 11km/h

.5 * 1.18 * .2 * (11/3.6) = 3watts
.5 * 1.18 * .35 * (11/3.6) = 6watts

So if you can put out 10 watts more sitting up, you are still 7 watts ahead.

At 25km.h

.5 * 1.18 * .2 * (25/3.6) = 40watts
.5 * 1.18 * .35 * (25.3.6) = 69watts

So a 29 watts difference

So if you can produce 30watts sitting up, that is your break even point to sit up/

Theoretically :-)
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Re: Aero position - uphill [marcag] [ In reply to ]
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That is truly amazing, thank you!
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