I dont know how many experienced street-lugers are on the 'fish, but i find the street-luge.com kind of inactive so;
Has anyone built fairings from plastic winter snow sleds; i bough the H2O! brand, and I'm wondering how to do this properly on the first shot.
Where are the most important part to attach this apart from atop the truck hardware?
Is it better to use it empty or should i fill the large void underneath with expanding foam from an aerosol can? Or is there a much simpler method to cover the bottom?
How important is a rear fairing?
I dont know how many experienced street-lugers are on the 'fish, but i find the street-luge.com kind of inactive so;
Has anyone built fairings from plastic winter snow sleds; i bough the H2O! brand, and I'm wondering how to do this properly on the first shot.
Where are the most important part to attach this apart from atop the truck hardware?
Is it better to use it empty or should i fill the large void underneath with expanding foam from an aerosol can? Or is there a much simpler method to cover the bottom?
How important is a rear fairing?
Thank you
-AJ
Street-luge.com is only inactive because people aren't posting, but it is still way more active than this section is. There are probably more lugers still visiting there than here
To answer your question, the rear fairing is everything, as far as fairings go. The front is pretty much pointless (although it can look cool)
It isn't important to fill it, but you would like to have a smooth bottom, if you can only do that by filling it...
People have built fairings from pretty much everything.
I'm not sure what you mean about the most important part?
I remember reading that Bill Smrtic said the rear fairing is the most important, because your legs already cut the air.
I have found garbage cans have a nice curve already in them. I raced paskapoo with my garbage can "fairing" but it was just for looks. I plan on using this method to make a full rear one
Honestly though, it's very debatable whether it does more harm than good. I left my open on the bottom, so it probably creates a harmful vacuum of air.
The reason I did it was for my own safety. I was getting tired of getting spun out from behind. I had a stretch where it happened in two consecutive races. So now the area between my pan and trucks/wheels is closed off.
But if everyone ran pegless I wouldn't need this.
All I did was use the bolt holes from my rear trucks and the bolt holes for my headrest and attatched it that way. I also had to trim the sides so it wouldn't scrape the ground when I turned. I also cut out small squares in the back of the sled to allow air flow through it, rather than have it act as a sail. So I definitely would not call my bodywork a fairing.
The rear faring is more important the front because the way areodynamics work. Sure, your feet/body is already slighly aerodynamic. But it is more important to control the flow behind you.
Sean, while pegless luges minimize been spun out from the rear, and protecting your rear wheels will also help, neither will prevent it. I was taken out twice by a pegless rider, by being spun on from behind.
I didnt take the time to look at Yvon's luge when he was in Montreal, I wonder how SC8 luges attach the bottom piece to the fairings to make them completely closed off, leaving only holes for wheel movement.
I didnt take the time to look at Yvon's luge when he was in Montreal, I wonder how SC8 luges attach the bottom piece to the fairings to make them completely closed off, leaving only holes for wheel movement.
There isn't a "bottom" piece. You can see some pics of some of their boards on my site.
I wanna figure out how to do this, and have acces to tweaking my hanger...
Do what? As far as I know the back end is a single piece. Then there is a thin plastic piece that is hinged on one side, and just kind of pops in on the other. The plastic is flexible, and just pops under the other side to be held into place.
In the pic you linked too It looks like he is just using tape to hold it into place.
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