Picture of my newly designed roof.


[Roof pic]


Well it all started when I was coming home against a strong head wind, one afternoon. And was passed by a rider of an "normal" bike. Well, that was it. I had to redesign my roof.
I still wanted to keep dry in rainy weather (Liquid sunshine as we call it). So I purchased a piece of Lexan from the local hardware store (Home Depot), and fitted it atop of the Zzipper fairing. Effectively extending it to almost over my head. The reason for this, was because I noticed that most of the liquid sunshine hits me from the front. The end result was a lighter/faster roof, that was equally successful at keeping the rain off.

Wouldn't you know it, but I get done with my new roof, and one morning a couple of weeks ago, I experienced a 50 mph tail wind. Now this was an interesting experience. I felt as though I was going up a ski lift on some of my ascents on my way to work.

An interesting development, the new design of the roof causes a vacuum just above my head. Thus sucking air up past my feet, and into the seating area (an updraft). This gets a little annoying when traveling above 30 mph. So next up on the adgenda are side pannels, click here.
[Picture of BikeE Roof]
[BikeE roof]

Different angles of the BikeE Roof.

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