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A motorcycle with a full fairing is not an unknown type of vehicle. These have been known for a long time under various names. Bicycles with a full fairing are called velomobile. They can be called 'Cabin Scooter'. In Europe after WWII many former airplane companies got into making three or two wheeled enclosed motorcycles with very aerodynamic bodies, one was the Messerschmitt an instance of which appeared in the movie Brazil. In Czechoslovakia they were called "dalnik".
Motorcycles have horrible aerodynamics. Still, they can get great gas mileage even with horrible aerodynamics. Some contests have been run which proved that adding a fairing to a motorcycle can give it tremendous fuel efficiency. The main key is improved aerodynamics.
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whatsup.htm
Coroplast full enclosure advice - http://www.bentrideronline.com/messageboard/archive/index.php/t-7352.html
Rotator Pursuit Coroplast fairing - http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/pauljones/
http://www.biketcba.org/TRICORR/projects/fairing4/fairing4.html
Tribute page to three wheel cars - http://www.ccpc.net/%7Ejaho/on3wheel.html
Bob Stuart and the Car-Cycle - http://microship.com/bobstuart/carcycle.html
Coroplast (TM) Craziness Page! - http://www.ihpva.org/Builders/WVolk/
http://www.merit.edu/~rjd/fairing_construction.html
Build a Fairing in Your Living Room - http://www.wesleychurch.info/bike/bikepro/PROJECT.HTM
http://www.windwrap.com/brolarticle.htm
http://www.maxmatic.com/threes/rtw_index.htm
http://www.maxmatic.com/Dymaxion/dymaxion.htm
Cabin Scooter Built for Two (Dec, 1955) - http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/20/cabin-scooter-built-for-two/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_cycle
The Craig Vetter Fuel Economy Contests - 1980 thru 1985 - http://www.craigvetter.com/pages/470MPG/470MPG%20Main.html
Every Vetter Fairing Design - http://www.craigvetter.com/pages/Vetter_Fairings/Every_Vetter_Fairing_made.html
Barracuda Fairing Design - http://www.recumbents.com/WISIL/barracuda/barracudafairingdesign.htm
Building the Barracuda Speedbike - http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/barracuda/barracuda.htm
efluids bicycle aerodynamics - http://www.efluids.com/efluids/pages/bicycle.htm
Exploratorium bicycle aerodynamics - http://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/aerodynamics1.html
Aerodynamic drag of mountain bike tyres - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1460-2687.2001.00070.x
Aerodynamic Design of HPVs - http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rkeanini/humpowengrg/Aerodynamic%20Design%20of%20HPVs2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_fairing
Drag of Blunt Bodies and Streamlined Bodies - http://www.princeton.edu/~asmits/Bicycle_web/blunt.html
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