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A "KVF" Foil in a wind tunnel portraying how air passes the foil when attacking the win from an angle
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In the sport of Cycling, one of the major factors that cyclist tend to focus on is the aerodynamics of their bikes. According to Cervélo they claim that Aerodynamic drag tends to take up to 80-90% of the overall resistance a rider experiences during cycling; roughly 10% of this drag is created by the bike while the rest of it is due to the rider.
So the major question to many bike manufacturing companies is: "How to we improve our bike design to make it more aerodynamic increasing a cyclist's speed and overall time?"
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