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Just in case you misunderstood the parent post -- your Cd as a cyclist is pretty much constant around your normal cycling speeds. Your total air drag goes up wi
by Toutouxc 5y ago
Just in case you misunderstood the parent post -- your Cd as a cyclist is pretty much constant around your normal cycling speeds. Your total air drag goes up with the square of velocity, that's for sure, but if you went transsonic on your bike, your Cd would ALSO increase dramatically on top of the already brutal velocity-squared multiplier.
- rich_sasha 5y agoIt’s almost worse, because you’re working against this quadratic force, at a rate proportional to speed. So power output, the usual limiting factor for a cyclist, scales like 3rd power of speed.
- fho 5y agoFair enough ... I really did not get that :-)