There was a two-part article on motorcycle aerodynamics in "Motorcycle
Consumer News", Vol 26, #5, May 1995 and the following June issue. The
author (Jim Reed) was working on a 125cc Can-Am for Bonneville. A very
good article.
Having raced (and set) the P125 record on a Cagiva C9, I can offer this
bit of advise about unfared and non-dustbin fared motorcycles: You pick
up a little bit of top end by sliding as far back as you can and laying
flat. I had my butt all the way back to the grab rail, offering the
wind as flat a surface as I could over the top of the bike. Also, the
clip-ons were tucked in so far I had about a 1/4 mile turning radius.
It worked.
- Carl Dreher
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