Into the Dustbin?

[Kenneth_Moore]

Originally Posted by seruzawa

To get a 100% increase in mileage you would need roughly a 50% drop in drag. If a dustbin will give this much advantage then you very well might get the 100% increase.

Naturally the speeds you are going to travel is critical. If you are doing stop and go city driving then a big fairing like that will increase weight and any gains in aerodynamics would be offset by the extra fuel needed to accelerate the thing. Also the drag increases with the square of the speed. So your advantage will be greater at higher speeds.

A dustbin would make good sense for highway riding and would probably be a mistake in an urban setting.

Gluge's initial statement was that adding a dustbin type fairing doubled the mpg of his friends bike.

I could google up mulitple projects where cars got 350 mpg, and bikes got considerably more (YES, in IDEAL conditions). So saying this guy's bike got what, 90-100 mpg with a dustbin fairing seems to be a reasonable claim to me.

Crap, I wish the rain would quit. I wanna go riding and the kid won't go unless it's dry. Kids today....when I was 9 we'd ride through 5' of snow and vicious ice storms. AND WE LIKE IT THAT WAY!!!