"Tom Sherman" wrote in message
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Peter Clinch wrote:
Jack wrote:

Afterwards i read a story in Velovision on a man in Wales, he
mentioned Static energy or something like that.
The fairing of the bike still seems to do something, even at lower
speeds.

IIRC the main thing he'd found is if you hit the bottom of the hill
doing 10 mph more than you'd be doing without the fairing, that was
often enough to get you over smaller hills, and a good start on bigger
ones, before the weight disadvantages cut in.

Indeed. A faired recumbent is great on a series of short rolling hills.

Those rolling hills only go on for a little ways, and then you have to
confront some really big hills. That is where recumbents get dropped like
the lead bricks that they are. I would not want any kind of bicycle but an
upright if I were going to be riding in the hills and mountains. Neither
would Mr. Sherman if he knew what the hell he was talking about. But
ignorance is bliss when you live in flat terrain like he does (former Quad
City resident - Illinois Side, now residing in or near Milwaukee).

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota