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that's pretty cool, wonder if anyone else has been playing with bikes ahead of the 'lympics?
presume this has been UCI approved but wonder if anyone will kick off if they start dominating.
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What's the point of swapping the crank to LHS? I've seen BMXers do it for grind-side preference but are they doing it just to be quirky or is their evidence?
Something to do with "we exploited the aerodynamic advantage of the slight yaw angles you see when the bike is ridden through a velodrome’s banked turns. So the airfoil shapes are asymmetrical."
"by moving the drive side on the bike from the outside of the track, or right-hand side of the bike, to the inner part of the track, or left-hand side of the bike, the bike become more aerodynamic, and also handles better because the bike’s weight and center of gravity has moved inboard of the turns."
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Asymmetric tubing, custom Hed discs, LHD.
Looks like they've used the standard crank construction though, which to me looks like the crank aero aerofoil is the wrong way around.
I wonder whether a UK tester typically sees more wind from the left or right? Given we race on the LHS of the road could that result in more wind coming from from the more open RHS of a DC, rather than from the sheltered LHS? Benefit in hiding the drivetrain on the left?
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