Cabin Helix, Florida

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Design observations - Cabin Helix bodywork

Craig Vetter, designer

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This presents a great opportunity to see the problems we face. This thing represents a lot of work. but in the end, it is not streamlined. Air hates to smack into the front wheel stuff. Air should slip by but is grabbed into the great scoops for the rider's legs. I doubt that this bodywork does much for enhancing performance. To that end, bodywork adds up quickly in weight. So, maybe this is to stay dry in the Florida rain. But major problems happen when we totally enclose ourselves to stay dry. In the rain, the inside and outside of our windshields get wet and fogged over. We cannot see. So, we cannot drive in the rain. In my Windjammer days, we would advise riders to keep their windshield just below the horizon, so they could peek over to see where they were going. How does this guy deal with this? How does anybody deal with this?