A Belgian professor/researcher working for Dutch and Belgian universities has done a lot of research in wind tunnels etc, and came to the same conclusion. He talked about it in 2019 on Dutch TV:Vélonews just resurfaced an article from 2018 that tested the aero benefits of various riders descending styles. Pantani was the least aero because his body trapped too much air. The winners were variants on the supertuck as performed by Sagan and Phinney. So there does seem to be a real benefit.
CDA - AERODYNAMICS - DRAG: influence of motorbikes, bike position etc
I posted this some weeks ago in the "general news thread". Since there is now a follow up, i've decided to make a new topic for it. Red Rick[/url]"]Logic-is-your-friend[/url]"]Belgian professor Bert Blocken from universities Leuven (Belgium) and Eindhoven (Netherlands) has done more research...
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