Wired: 138 MPH Down a Ski Slope

While watching Paris-Roubaix this morning, also reading the story from my friends at Wired about How You Design a Bicycle to Hit 138 MPH on a Ski Slope. You know, as if the cobbles, aren’t extreme enough….

Once the suit and bike were ready, the team put Barone in the wind tunnel, happy to find that their computer modeling delivered the aerodynamic numbers they were hoping for. “It’s about the same approach as Formula One,” says Amerigo, or designing a plane.

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