Hi everyone.
Due to a back injury Im moving from track cycling to Time Trialling mainly for 2 reasons. I get no pleasure out of being in a sweaty pack chain ganging someones bot and being a bit of an inventor with a backgound in missile technology I love the (almost) anything goes approach to building the fastest machine yet.
This is a kit question.
It regards aero gloves, There are numerous ones out there and as far I see they only serve to cause less drag due to body hair aka useless. The only truly aerodynamic solution is a nose cone to direct aiflow past our largely un-aerodynamic bodies. Nose cones fitted to bikes are illegal I am led to understand.
I wonder what the ruling would be on properly aerodynamic gloves (imagine half a nose cone on each hand coming together to form a full cone when placed on aero bars) With the main aim to direct airflow around the stem of the body. This can be done by deliberately causing turbulance at the base of the cone directing airflow wide which keeps the pure bulk needed of the gloves down and hopefully keeping the sillyness factor to a minimum.
Downhill extreme speed skiers use them along with calf inserts to remove drag and I can see a reason as to why timetriallers cant. The fact that they may look silly is negated by the fact that we're wearing buck rogers tweeky helmets anyway.
Im building a set, have they actually been thought of before and would I actually be allowed to use them for anything other than novelty?
Due to a back injury Im moving from track cycling to Time Trialling mainly for 2 reasons. I get no pleasure out of being in a sweaty pack chain ganging someones bot and being a bit of an inventor with a backgound in missile technology I love the (almost) anything goes approach to building the fastest machine yet.
This is a kit question.
It regards aero gloves, There are numerous ones out there and as far I see they only serve to cause less drag due to body hair aka useless. The only truly aerodynamic solution is a nose cone to direct aiflow past our largely un-aerodynamic bodies. Nose cones fitted to bikes are illegal I am led to understand.
I wonder what the ruling would be on properly aerodynamic gloves (imagine half a nose cone on each hand coming together to form a full cone when placed on aero bars) With the main aim to direct airflow around the stem of the body. This can be done by deliberately causing turbulance at the base of the cone directing airflow wide which keeps the pure bulk needed of the gloves down and hopefully keeping the sillyness factor to a minimum.
Downhill extreme speed skiers use them along with calf inserts to remove drag and I can see a reason as to why timetriallers cant. The fact that they may look silly is negated by the fact that we're wearing buck rogers tweeky helmets anyway.
Im building a set, have they actually been thought of before and would I actually be allowed to use them for anything other than novelty?