2manyoranges
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interesting that you are going for 38mm tyres for the Airbourne - great that you have clearance. I am playing with tyres for commuting at present.Haha I wish it was a Litespeed! It's really an Airborne Carpe Diem -- made by the company that became Van Nicholas. It's a Ti cyclocross frame but I've fitted light roadie wheels and 38mm gravel tyres and it works pretty well on most surfaces.
I was also pondering wind on this ride . . . pity I failed O-level physics, because angles and numbers don't really talk to me. But it does seem quite clear that even if the wind isn't directly in your face, anywhere within an arc of 180 degrees ahead of you will hold you back more or less, and anything behind in a similar arc will help or at least hinder you less. As for gusting and buffeting, I guess that ramps up these effects radically, according to the intensity of each gust wind. And I'm sure it gets more complex than that!
Vasoconstriction makes sense. I'm a big fan of insulating the core but perhaps my attempts haven't been sufficient. Today I had a Helly Hansen base layer, a thicker insulated stretchy 'tech fabric' shirt over that (long sleeves both) and a gilet. Things certainly got sweaty eventually, but those numb feet may indicate that it wasn't enough.
WTB 700c 45C Riddlers. Slow, and with nasty transition onto the side knobs, giving uneasy cornering. Very tight clearance on orange med RoadRat with 23mm internal rims.
Schwlabe 700c 35mm G-One All-Round base model. Fast, and with excellent transition throughout the lean. Nice clearances on 16mm internal on the grey small RoadRat. I gain around 15% time on these - standard commute reduces from 40 mins to under 35 mins, and its all down to the tyres and rims. The rims have a slight aero form to them, while the tyres are noticeably quick.
Next to try
Schwalbe 700c 40mm G-One All Round. Let's see how those do. Second pair of Cotic wheels can be prepped but the free hub in them is WEIRD ... pawls are in the hub body not the free hub - kind of reverse Hope - and they came to me with the axle and free hub missing (thrown in with the orange RR frame gratis) and I have to get Ant (TrueWheels) to rebuild so that I have a pair. Managed to get a 142 converted standard Hope Pro4 rear hub last night for 55.00 gbp posted (thank you Adam on PinkBike) - and will use the mountain of axles and spacers here to get a 135 QR out of it, I started to undo all the spokes last night then clocked that they were nasty cheap plain gauge - ss but cheap - and so chopped them out..Ant can rebuild with DB...then WE RIDE