http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: beard aerodynamics - Recent Topics en Mon, 18 May 2026 19:27:14 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12856#post-154469 Fri, 23 May 2014 12:29:47 +0000 Focus 154469@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One for all the bearded men (or ladies, just in case we have any circus acts on here!)</p> <p><a href="http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/specialized-test-aerodynamics-of-a-beard-video-41144/?CPN=RSS&amp;SOURCE=BRROADNEWS#null">LINK</a></p> <p>"<em>With its fancy wind tunnel, Specialized is equipped to answer the big questions of bike and rider aerodynamics – and one of those is the drag coefficient of a beard. </p> <p>...</p> <p>Specialized) the Californian company’s aerodynamicists, Chris Yu and Mark Cote, put a fuzzy subject – Joe Self – in the tunnel before and after he’d had a shave, to check out what happens to the drag coefficient.</p> <p>According to Yu, beard or no beard makes a negligible difference – over 40km there would be about a one second difference in favour of the smooth shaven Self. It means riders in the real world – hipsters, Luca Paolini and Bradley Wiggins – can rest easy that their beard is not really affecting their marginal gains.</em> " </p>