On Mar 23, 6:49*pm, Bret Cahill wrote:
On Mar 23, 6:31*am, Ian Smith wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Bret Cahill wrote:
*To cheat the wind and save fuel a lot of work has been done using
*computer controls to bunch vehicles closely together on the
*freeway. A motorist could pull out of the pack to exit anytime.

*Has anything been done with this with bicycles? *It would certainly
*change the nature of criteriums.

Has anyone ever noticed that you go faster with less effort if you
bunch bicycles closely together on the road?

With computer operated servos?

Bret Cahill

Your brain is the computer - I can cycle about six inches off a back
wheel and if someone slows down, my brain sends a signal to my brain
to apply the brake.

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Simon Mason