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Fuel Economy begins with streamlining
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See the Gathering of Streamliners and TTXGP bikes at the Vintage Days Mansfield, Ohio, July 24-26, 2009.
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Consider the following logic:
Horsepower consumes fuel Streamlining is round at the front and pointed at the rear. Streamlining allows less horsepower to push a person through the air. |
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Pioneering "Feet-Forward" designs
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| Sitting up in a comfortable position puts us in a very comfortable "Lawnchair" position - with our feet out in front. Thus the name "Feet-Forward". Because we sit so much lower than a motorcycle, our frontal area is smaller. This makes it easier to streamline. A "Feet Forward" sitting position is the first step in streamlining. Take a peek at some of the Pioneer "Feet-Forward" Designers.
It is my hope that today's innovators in fuel economy will be inspired by "Feet-Forward" efforts. We should take advantage of their pioneering head start. |
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This DVD is good place to begin:
They won't tell you this in school |
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San Francisco, Oct 20, 2007. I made this presentation to the ICSID/ IDSA World Congress "Connecting '07"
Two HDTF cameras recorded the event. Professionally mastered. This may be the most important resource on my website. |
48 minutes long. Over 200 never before published high quality images including video.
Interviews with the winners tell us what worked and what did not work Everything I know about these machines and their designer-builders is on this DVD. |
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Your better mileage project begins on this DVD
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| Ray writes April 4, 2010: Watching your presentation on "How They Got 470 MPG..." has since caused me to look at vehicle body designs in a new light. When I read this article linked below announcing a new Chevrolet model I immediately thought of the things you said.
Chevrolet Cruze Eco Debuts It is obvious from the three photographs that the company is not really serious about aerodynamics. Instead of making changes to the body which would achieve large improvements to the aerodynamics they make a big ado about one change which nets an admitted infinitesimal reduction in wind drag. The following quote from the article sums it up. "We looked at every single possibility of squeezing out the last tenth of a mile per gallon," said Mike Danowski, Cruze product manager. An electric motor is connected to the fascia shutters, which close automatically at 37 mph and reopen at 34 mph. When closed, there is a 0.016 improvement in the coefficient of drag, he said." Thank you for teaching the truth about this. |
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This video requires QuickTime to play. You can download it free from Apple's site here
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"Popular Culture believes one thing...
The Truth may be something else." |
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This page posted Aug 2, 2008
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