Aero Tuck - Bringing your legs up?

Bhima

It's just occured to me that if you are in an "aero tuck", going downhill, where no pedalling is required, you could massively decrease your frontal area by unclipping your feet, bending your legs and pointing your toes backwards as much as possible so that your shins would be out of the wind. (As if you were kneeling down)

Just wondering if anyone's tried this? It killed my hamstrings after about 15 seconds! Don't currently have any speedometer on my bike so have no idea weather it worked or not. 'd imagine that the ammount of frontal area decrease would be quite big!

Mog Uk

Hmmmm...

1. You'll look like an ar5e

2. If it was that effective, pro riders would be doing it

3. You'll look like an ar5e

Feltup

Possibly more aero but then when it comes to the first corner you will want your feet on the pedals to stabilise the bike through the corner also to accelerate out of the tighter corners.

Plus you will look an arse ;-)

robmanic1

One of the pro-roadies used to "superman", can't remember who though.

He looked an ar$e.

softlad

Bhima wrote:

It's just occured to me that if you are in an "aero tuck", going downhill, where no pedalling is required, you could massively decrease your frontal area by unclipping your feet, bending your legs and pointing your toes backwards as much as possible so that your shins would be out of the wind. (As if you were kneeling down)

Just wondering if anyone's tried this? It killed my hamstrings after about 15 seconds! Don't currently have any speedometer on my bike so have no idea weather it worked or not. 'd imagine that the ammount of frontal area decrease would be quite big!

the paramedics would call you an 'ar5e' while they were scraping you off the floor.

Leodhasach

Robmanic1 wrote:

One of the pro-roadies used to "superman", can't remember who though.

He looked an ar$e.

That was Chris Boardman I think.

STEFANOS4784

What an ar5e

redddraggon

People don't seem to be able to spell arse in this thread....

Anonymous

They are spelling ar5se just fine

Some parts of the world doing that "aero tuck", you'd get beaten up, for looking like a total ar5e.

keef66

Obree then Boardman used a Superman aero tuck using modified bikes which the UCI then banned. Didn't involve taking the feet off the pedals though, just leaning a long way down and forwards.

Bhima

I did it on a desserted hill so there was luckily nobody about to see me make an ar5e/arse of myself!

I just wanna know - does it actually work? It could mean a big difference.

chrisw12

Keef66

You're an ar5e, this thread was quite funny until you broke the chain, keep up.

JC.152

you could do them multiple roll hill tests to see how much time it saved you...

..as long as there aren't the same people watching each time you go down the hill to say "theres that bloke looking like an ars€ again"

Bhima

hehehe...

Once I get a computer, i'll time it and post the results.

To avoid looking like an ar5e, I'll have to do it late at night to avoid being seen by someone...

whyamihere

If a cyclist rolls down a hill with his legs up in an aero tuck with nobody around to see him does he still look like an arse?

I'd say he does.

LangerDan

keef66 wrote:

Obree then Boardman used a Superman aero tuck using modified bikes which the UCI then banned. Didn't involve taking the feet off the pedals though, just leaning a long way down and forwards.

Not in the context of descending, though. One of the Euskaltel riders (Sanchez??) was photographed lying horizontal on his bike, legs stretched out behind him, resting his nadgers on the saddle so his body was completely parallel to the ground.

JC.152

I think I've found the photo your on about his names blake longacre from champsystems instead of euskadel, isn't he doing that for a joke and not aerodynamics



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Bhima

Hahaha! That's crazy!

I thought Ricardo Van Der Velde was mad with this:

k-dog

That helmet won't be doing much for his aerodynamics...

a_n_t

k-dog wrote:

That helmet won't be doing much for his aerodynamics...

I agree. He should have tucked it between his thighs.

UncleFred

Confirmed: Looks like an arse

LangerDan

JC.152 wrote:

I think I've found the photo your on about his names blake longacre from champsystems instead of euskadel, isn't he doing that for a joke and not aerodynamics

Nope - it was Euskaltel but it was actually David Etxebarria rather than Sammy Sanchez. Much orangeness in both photos, though

chriskempton

Bhima wrote:

I did it on a desserted hill

Were there cakes and trifles strewn all over the road?

rally200

Bhima

please, please, post a photo of your tuck. I just cant picture it.

There's a thread on commuting "who has the best arse - men or women?" I think the men are winning

Gav888

See, he looks an ar5e...