Riding home the other night with a nice solid 15+ mph gusty crosswind on the Klein, with the disc wheel cover still on it from Blount Fall River crit I tried hard to notices the effects of the wind.
And there weren't any.
I've never felt any issue with cross winds and the solid rear wheel.
The other night I realized why.
Center of Gravity.
I'm riding a 63cm frame and a huge amount of mass is way up top. And if you compare the leverage point of the disc wheel in a cross wind with my CG, and then maybe compare it to someone on a 54cm frame who weighs in 50 pounds lighter, well it makes sense that I might not feel anything from a cross wind.
Is it slowing me down? Maybe in that situation, but then maybe not. But no matter it makes sense why I don't notice it when the wind is blowing in my ear hole.
In other news, my joy and jubilation at finding the holy grail of cranks (180mm and BB30) seems to have been dashed to bits. Looks like I will be settling on a 2.5 mm shorter version. Oh well. The added stiffness and weight savings and increased power transfer probably make up for the loss of leverage (i know - G-ride's laughin, or groaning right about now).
Oh well. Some things that seem too good be true, even after repeated efforts that seem to say they are true - turn out to be ass suspected. Not so.
It'll work out. Hopefully by VT.
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Moveitfred tried that whole center-of-gravity argument with a cop once when he was driving his VW bus through harsh Santa Ana winds in SoCal and got pulled over for drunk driving. Didn't go over so well.
I would imagine that if I strapped the wheel covers to my head, my experience wouldn't be so different as you with the VW bus and cop...
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