 A recumberent may be sloped at it's rear to capture incomming wind like a sail.If the angle of the bike declines with 10 degrees (at each side) it can sail in-comming wind under an angle of 11 degrees. The angle of the wind changes whith the speed of the vehicle. When it accelerates the wind appears more as-if comming from the front. When we vortex or just spin something mass desires to move to the edge of the rim quite forcefully. A recumbent aero nose cone is also a device that pushes the air to the outside. The first is doing it centripically the later with "brute" force. If we create a vortex it will always have some vacuum in it's center. The vortex will also have some presure towards it's edges. The illustrations tries to illustrate how we can have it suck the body inside this hole.  |
While we slide the vehicle all the way though the vortex the pressure wave turns arround and it will now squeeze the bike forwards like an eel.
I had drawn the below cone to illustrate how such a thing could look. It should probably have a bit more of a warped shape but it gets the general idea accross.
The device is to be caped over the normal nose cone in order to accomplish the utilisation of wind from all directions in order to create a vacuum straigh ahead therefrom.
The big difference is that the air is now gradually moved outwards while doing work on the rotor.
This should allow for a bike of more comfortable width.�
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