We learned this more than 20 years ago at Zipp and even developed a 120mm fork crown fork with vertical blades that worked well with trispokes.. it sits in the lobby of Zipp to this day and was the inspiration for the Dimond front end (done by a Zipp employee) and also shared with GB cycling after a discussion I had with Boardman at Eurobike following the release of the gen 1 super bike they did that had the super tight fork blades and stays.. those bikes had been done entirely in CFD followed by a little wind tunnel validation, but had missed some of the wattage to spin issues related to the super tight blades/stays. Notably the next gen GB bikes had much wider fork blades and worked much better with certain wheels.
This one, however, is clearly next level. I've asked for some details that I can share from those involved and haven't heard specifics yet, but my assumption would be that they figured that they might as well push this stuff out to the centerline of the legs if they were going to be 50-60mm away from the wheel surface anyway.
Mathematically I'm quite interested as this is a pretty significant increase in A over most any other option, so the corresponding reduction in Cd must be quite large to compensate. Also interested in the continuation of right hand drive. There has been a lot of debate about the left hand drive concept and the data collection and means to get to those numbers. I know that this group had way more than enough money and capability to thoroughly investigate that as an option, so interesting to see that not being a feature here.
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