{"id":69102,"date":"2012-08-24T06:57:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69102"},"modified":"2012-08-24T06:57:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:57:26","slug":"motorcycle-aerodynamics-aero-by-numbers-drawing-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=69102","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Aerodynamics &#8211; Aero By Numbers, Drawing The Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aerodynamics of racing motorcycles are determined more by the rules of the racing organizations than by the principles of efficient design. By dictating what may be covered and what must be exposed, the rules don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give much freedom to designers.<\/p>\n<p>So when a bike comes along that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claimed to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perhaps the most aerodynamic roadracing motorcycle ever,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we take notice. The newest version of the MotoCzysz e1pc was introduced just before this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Isle of Man TT Zero race, where it became the first electric bike to lap the 37.73-mile Mountain Circuit at more than 100 mph.\u00c2\u00a0 This bike is basically\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclistonline.com\/features\/columns\/122_1209_motorcycle_aerodynamics_drawing_the_line\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aerodynamics of racing motorcycles are determined more by the rules of the racing organizations than by the principles of efficient design. By dictating what may be covered and what must be exposed, the rules don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give much freedom to designers. So when a bike comes along that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s claimed to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perhaps the most aerodynamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69104,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69102\/revisions\/69104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}