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A path-confined tricyclist wrote:I'd be slightly curious to see drag data. A recumbent tricyclist may have less frontal area, as precisely measured in square inches from a front view photo. OTOH, such a bike+rider seems aerodynamically far "dirtier" than a normal road bike. Two wide-spaced wheels with rims and spokes churning the air, lots of transverse frame components with non-aero cross sections, and especially two legs and feet cranking and churning away in the very front of the bike. ISTM aero flow would be completely turbulent from the first bit all the way back.>I’d assume you’d still offer less to the wind than on a two wheeler?
Actually, aerodynamic drag is a significant factor on a Catrike. I do
my best to keep my water bottles and bags out of the wind stream, I do
not wear any loose clothes that flap in the wind, but I simply cannot
ride with my arms tucked in as the original Catrike setup.
Assumptions are as ever sometimes just plain wrong!
Indeed! Nobody has ever claimed that riding back and forth on a dead flat, empty paved rail-trail requires any knowledge or skill. That's all the trike guy does.On the other hand, I learned how to ride a two wheeler before I was inKinda depends on what your doing...
grade school, with no instruction. I think it's totally ridiculous
that some fools would actually pay some dufus to teach them how to
ride...
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