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The new Kona bound Diamondback Tri-Bike


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Just hope for no cross-winds

apparently they're aware of that. put your science cap on:

 

But before you assume it’s going to be a literal drag at high yaw, when the winds are coming off the mountains, Quan’s design builds for that, taking advantage of all that surface area.

With the bikes massive unbroken surface area, air can flow smoothly from the trailing edge of the front wheel clear across the frame, back across the lower seattube, onto the rear wheel and then off of it, much cleaner than any other bike, Diamondback claims. That means at yaw, wind will stay attached from front to rear, and not stall out, smoothly flowing off the frame in a pintail, even at yaw, and even absent the presence of a truncated Kamm-style tail. “It resolves air across the entire length of that section,” Quan says.

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