"Paul Worden" <
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> I can only imagine what would happen in a side wind.... unrideable
>
> Paul W
I've never seen a full fairing on an upright bike yet that I really liked. That's one thing some
recumbents do real well while at the same time it's one thing that uprights do poorly. This bike
reminds me of the old Aeroshell bikes....anyone remember them. I have this funny story...well it was
funny once anyway...At my first HPV race a LONG time ago,there were several Aeroshell bikes
competing. They were strange bikes, there was a bottom skirt and then there was the upper part, I
can't really tell you how it all bolted on the bike,but I remember that it closed towards the front
kinda like a clam shell. Well anyway here we are during one of the road races and the wind was
getting stronger and stronger, and about halfway thru the race as I'm on the back part of the course
running thru a corner when I saw a piece of plastic in the middle of the track. Next corner and
another piece of what now looks like body work...another turn and a bigger piece of something.
Finally in the next corner I found out what it was...the Aeroshell had split fully open and on the
ground was the racer and about a hundred pieces of bodywork....I forget who was racing the thing,
but he was just busting out laughing when I saw him later. I guess the wind had taken it's toll on
the latch and it started to come apart and he was trying to hold it together and race, but a huge
gust of wind hit it just right and pried it open. Never saw the Aeroshells again after that.
Freddy
