How efficient are bikes?

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I've heard that having a pony tail significantly reduces efficiency too.

It has been calculated that decrease in efficiency caused by Laurent Fignon's pony tail in the 1989
Tour de France caused him to lose Greg Lemond. Fact!

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Bill says:

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I once heard that the most efficient form/use of energy is a man on a bike, or woman.....no idea
if it's true.

I don't know if a man on a woman is the most _efficient_ use of energy,

but it

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sure is fun! ;->

Fun. I think it is much more than fun - it's a necessary activity of sheer ecstatic sweaty glory. A
man on a bike is fun.

Shaun aRe - [censored] knackered today.

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Sure you could. You would probably have to remove any kind of friction as to not burn up. If the
pull of gravity is great enough you could

transcend

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time.

I've done that without a hill. So far, I've transcended over 34 years.

Shaun aRe