Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hou2h!an From: an@hou2h.UUCP (A.NGUYEN) Newsgroups: net.cycle Subject: Re: Aerodynamics of large vehicles Message-ID: <588@hou2h.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 13:08:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2h.588 Posted: Thu Aug 16 13:08:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 01:18:36 EDT References: <1787@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 14 - Riding position has a lot to do with it. If you sit up right, you are presenting a nice and big sail to the wind to blow on. Ditto large fairings. Ditto large bikes, though their longer wheelbase offset the effect somewhat. I've gone places a lot on a Honda 360 (54" wheelbase) and a Kaw 550 (55" wheelbase) -- both had lower than stock handlebars (1" rise for the 360 and 4" drop for the 550). Neither had Windjammers or anything of that sort. Both had very good stability in crosswinds and wakes of large trucks. Au