Or maybe he was drafting off me.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Fastest ride ever
Ya know, that drafting thing I'm always hearing about really works. Tonight on my bike I tucked in behind a tractor towing a hay baler. It was pretty easy pedaling for a couple of kilometers. In fact, as I was coming back on the same road, without a baler to help, I realized that I was riding about 3 kph slower, headed slightly downhill, than I had been uphill--but behind my baler. Of course, going out I was fresher--and a little more motivated by the second tractor towing a second baler riding right behind me.
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Either you are real slow on the bike, or your Belgian tractors are fast! Who else?....donald
Hey, doesn't drafting only work at high speeds? It's been a long time since I studied physics but I seem to recall somesomething about wind resistance and it probbaly doesn't work at 6 or 9 mph. Oh well, it's an interesting idea.
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