Formula 1 cars don't have fenders because the rules don't allow them. Sports cars (like the ones that race at Le Mans) have fenders and are way faster, because they are more aerodynamic...
Shielding the wheels from the airstream actually makes you faster, which is why racing motorbikes have fenders. (Neither kickstands nor lights, though!) Seriously, Bicycle Quarterly tested fenders in the wind tunnel and found that the forward extension makes the bike more aerodynamic, the rearward one less, and the overall effect is zero. Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly www.bikequarterly.com Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 2:54:33 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > No fenders on this baby. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Jan Heine <hei...@earthlink.net > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> https://janheine.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/taking-off-fenders/ >> >> How many cyclists run fenders year-round on their cars? It still amazes >> me that nobody thinks a Porsche or a Ferrari is less sporty for having >> fenders and lights, but on a bike, it's still uncool in certain circles. ;-) >> >> Jan Heine >> Editor >> Bicycle Quarterly >> www.bikequarterly.com >> >> Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle > > *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
