don't know bidwell's calcs. 2-3 X qualifies as "substantial" to me, while 30% does not. Vetter used to be interested in LSR racing. Those designs aren't usable for street or track.
CD is not the only factor in aero calcs - its wildly misused all over the internet. In fact most say the tail is more important than the nose. The thing *I* think its important to remember is you can't calculate the actual drag without either 1) a cad model and major-league software on huge hardware, or 2) a wind tunnel that lets you test the bike at lean. You can mount the bike on a trailer and get some idea, but my point is, its really hard to measure aero effects. That said, everybody guesstimates based on previous designs. theres some other good, trustworthy links out there, I'll look tonight. Wikipedia may be pretty good on this by now. dale henderson wrote: > i got my results from the equation found in biddwells [spelling] "EL > CHOPPER". i've found the equation works very well for my current bikes, so i > just tried reducing the Cd, i even tried 0.1,
