<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">If constant speed is what you want in a modern Pattern model, then some extra drag is not necessarily a bad thing.<BR>
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Matt K<BR>
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Date:2/18/2004 3:25:19 PM Eastern Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:ronlock@comcast.net">ronlock@comcast.net</A><BR>
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I suspect the original research on that question was by Peter Goldsmith, <BR>
during design of his Carerra. It was the only fixed gear bird in the F3A line<BR>
at a Nationals in mid 1990's. Peter found that conventional gear retracted into a door-less well had more drag than fixed gear with pants.<BR>
That was the start of fixed gear becoming popular.<BR>
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Ron Lockhart<BR>
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>...John - Are you saying the the retract cutouts cause more drag than the <BR>
fixed gear with wheel pants?<BR>
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Ron Van Putte<<BR>
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