Over the years, I've done a good deal of long-distance bike riding. I know that when you are riding into the wind it would sure help to have some sort of a teardrop shaped encapsulated bubble to deal with the ever rising coefficient of drag. Just consider how bicycle racing teams get behind each other in a long chain just to help defeat some of the wind to cut down on drag. That's a great idea, and it works quite well, but what happens when you have wind from behind, why not use it to help propel yourself forward?

How hard would this be to design and make? How much would it cost, and would there be any one buying it? I believe if the cost were under $2000 you could sell a good number of them. If the cost were under $500 you'd sell tens of thousands of them. Why couldn't we make it that cheap or rather that inexpensive? The reality is with new material science; material memory and morphing materials we can. The question is who will do it? Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

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