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Sunday, 29 August 2010 15:15 Kraig Willett

Over the years, BTR has tested many wheels in a variety of wind tunnels (hey, we've been doing this thing since 1999 as independents and also as industry insiders!), and so, we've got some empirical data upon which we can take a stab at doing the sort of thing that follows...which is tabulating a review/ranking of over 150 front wheels.

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Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2010 17:30

Zipp 950 Disc vs Wheel Cover

Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:22 Kraig Willett

In 2003 I tested a CH aero wheel cover (that company has since been bought out by wheelbuilder, where the price instantaneously went up from a reasonable $40 up to $80+) against a Zipp 950 disc in the Texas A&M wind tunnel.

That test and trip to Texas probably cost me around $5000 (off the top of my head)...seeing as how that is a sizable chunk of change, I requested anyone who viewed that data sign a non-disclosure agreement. Y'know, cuz, I'm a capitalist and all! :-)

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Roller Data

Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:21 Al Morrison

Newly updated on 3/20/2010 !!! Al Morrison is back at it with his Crr data sets (just click on pdf links in the table after the jump)

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Last Updated on Sunday, 21 March 2010 04:35

LA Can't Do It

Sunday, 26 June 2005 05:14 Kraig Willett

LA Can’t “Do It”

Why an Hour Record Attempt Might Not Happen

6/26/05 - Words and images by Kraig Willett

Despite the re-assurances of his current coach, and the empirical extrapolations of academia, I don’t think that LA can surpass the hour record held by Chris Boardman. Not that it matters, though, since LA is hanging up his wheels in a few weeks… What I’m about to present may seem like pretty tenuous evidence in support of a pretty bold claim (one that’s sure to draw the ire of a few people); however, relax folks, it’s just bike racin’ – and I’m just an abaqus-movin’-slide-rulin’-pencil-pushin’-not-much-smarter-than-a-box-of-rocks-dork!

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Last Updated on Sunday, 23 May 2010 05:38

Speed For Sale

Thursday, 05 March 2009 05:56 Kraig Willett

Words and images by: Kraig Willett

Excerpts of this article originally appeared in Triathlete magazine in March of 2008. What appears below is the original, unedited article.

Most folks like to go fast on two wheels. Going faster than one has ever gone before feels great and the manufacturing community is more than happy to develop new products that can help pro’s and weekend warriors alike reach new limits in the speed department. It’s no secret that bicycle equipment manufacturers have been selling speed for decades.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 13 March 2010 06:20

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