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does weight make a difference in speed?

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[GoFidoGo]

Idiots. This whole "experiment" can be proven using a semester of remedial physics. bumsdrums doesn't know what hes talking about

[TheEwan425]

@bumsdrums more weight=more momentum

[TheEwan425]

this is not DH this is uparking fuckwit

[MODESTMOUSE89]

this has way to many flaws

[bumsdrums]

less body mass=less drag

[lhracer05]

@Lipschitz666

why didnt you just draft him if hes so fat?

mischo is mischo and you are just you, sorry

[lhracer05]

love the comments/arguments. however, all of you forgot to factor in the amount of hair (drag) fattie georges has on his body.

[robshookphoto]

the tuck doesnt matter; they were well below 25. you dont begin to see the benefits of tucking until then.

what is going on here is simple physics; the "fattie" accelerated faster (watch again you will see im right, he pulled ahead after the decelerated on each flat surface), then the skinny guy caught up because he could take better lines because he didnt have to deal with an effin cinderblock...

[sid21345]

This is a good try, but there is one thing that they didn't account for: the people riding. They push different at the beginning, they take different lines, which make a huge difference around the corners. They should have done this on a straight run.

Also, the "fattie" wasn't holding a tuck well because he had to hold on to the whatever that was he was carrying.

[gatechase]

in downhill, acceleration is more heavily affected by aerodynamics than weight, the only difference a fat person will have with a skinny person is that if the fat person collides with the skinny person, their higher inertia would make them more likely to stay standing (because they would be less affected by the impact) than the skinny person who can turn into a ragdoll far more easily, being skinny also lowers your wind resistance, and skinny people generally have better endurance than fatties