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ah, that makes much more sense. If they had been pedaling I was wondering how they got rid of bias since it would be pretty hard to blind the rider as to whethe
by derekja 12y ago
ah, that makes much more sense. If they had been pedaling I was wondering how they got rid of bias since it would be pretty hard to blind the rider as to whether their legs were shaved!
- nl 12y agoIn this case they measure the wind resistance of the rider directly in the wind tunnel. The fact the rider knows their legs are shaved doesn't seem to be a factor in that measurement.
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- swimfar 12y agoAnother cycling company, Trek bicycles, has a pedaling mannequin that they use for some of their wind tunnel tests([1] page 14). That's an older report (2010), but they have another from 2013 if you're interested in that stuff[2]. [1] http://www.slowtwitch.com/Downloads/TK10_SC_white_paper_lores.pdf http://www.slowtwitch.com/Downloads/TK10_SC_white_paper_lore... [2] http://www.slowtwitch.com/images/trek/TK13_SC_Whitepaper_final.pdf http://www.slowtwitch.com/images/trek/TK13_SC_Whitepaper_fin...