I have a fairly good idea, actually - while my current getting-around bike is a (very basic, 10-speed) drop-handlebar road racer, bike efficiency and aerodynamics has been a keen interest of mine for some time... and no offence to you, but the clothes, bikes and so-called 'aero' position are just trying to make the best of a very bad thing. The only places where a UCI-style "ordinary bicycle" frame does a good job are hill climbing (which a sit-up cycle or MTB do almost as well) and stacking into a tight space (where folding bikes do better) - admittedly, the kind of bikes most people put electric assist on aren't paragons of aerodynamic efficiency, but neither is a roadie.
The long and short of it is, if you take a decent recumbent, bike or trike, add your lycra-gang rider in boardies, thongs and a t-shirt, and put him up against his own best times on a roadie, he'll be breaking PBs with leisurely ease on the flat, and will be only marginally slower on long inclines than before, if at all. Add a fairing and you have something with which the aforementioned lycra-gang guy can cruise at 50kph for hours at a stretch, and not even need to shave his legs :lol:
You have to remember that the sport of cycling has been regulated to provide entertainment to the masses by providing a 'level playing field' on which the 'best rider' can win, twenty-grand carbon-fibre and titanium 'technical marvels' aside. Dressing up in lycra and spending huge money, time and effort on microscopic weight savings, elliptical spokes and 'slickness' isn't about going fast on human power alone, at all - there are far more effective ways to do that. It's about feeling like you're the star in the tour-de-france, a sporting hero, and not riding something unfashionably 'weird' - if that rocks your boat and motivates you to keep fit, more power to you - I could certainly do well to find such motivation for myself
- and there's no denying the camaraderie in cycling (or any activity of that sort) with a group of mates has a value all it's own. But if you just want to get top speed on your own muscles, it's a bit of a waste of time, and an expensive one at that...