Most people tend to do their TR workouts using a phone, tablet or laptop, all of which have cameras on them. How’s about setting up a system where you position said device a designated distance from your bike and the camera is used to evaluate your head-on aero profile / basic CdA. During a workout …

[image] Virtual Wind Tunnel, Aero Bike & Rider Setup (STAC & 4iiii) Equipment STAC, now under the 4iiii brand umbrella, is working on a Virtual Wind Tunnel process. https://www.staczero.com/vwt/ It was discussed recently on the Faster by Flo podcast Older references: …

Intriguing idea. I wonder if you’d have to hang a green screen behind the bike so that it would get a cleaner profile for calculating frontal area. Maybe you could use 2 cameras to get stereo vision so you could map the wind facing topography.

I imagine the team has thought of this already but

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mcneese.chad January 9, 2020, 5:33pm 2

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I imagine the team has thought of this already but

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