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Cycling on windy days

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  • October 10, 2011 at 9:16 pm #14344
    londonplayer

    Have you ever noticed how when you cycle on a windy day, whatever direction you’re heading in, you always feel as if you’re cycling into the wind?

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  • December 1, 2011 at 4:34 pm #656083
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    stuke

    Never known it happen this
    Never known it happen this way round before but -:tailwind commute this morning
    :winds changed direction to give me a tailwind home
    :winds going to change direction overnight to give me a tailwind in the morning đŸ˜€

    what have I done to deserve this đŸ˜•

    November 12, 2011 at 12:43 pm #656081
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    shollin

    Where I cycle in South Wales
    Where I cycle in South Wales it’s a choice between lots of hills where you at least get the “weeeeeeeeee” factor going down or a flat wind tunnel along the Severn Estuary. The scenery is beautiful though and the wind thing, well it’s character building, apparently đŸ˜•

    November 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm #656079
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    James Warrener

    Any excuse to roll out this
    Any excuse to roll out this video won’t be missed đŸ˜€

    Agree with Fish_n_Chips

    October 30, 2011 at 12:39 pm #656077
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    Fish_n_Chips

    Really windy now in
    Really windy now in Cambridgeshire+no hills.

    Aero position is the only way I get through it and think of all the great training you will get!

    Best thing to do: accept the British weather is rubbish, no more moaning and get on enjoying the riding and no malaria.

    đŸ˜€

    October 26, 2011 at 9:35 am #656075
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    mr-andrew

    I’ve noticed that it always
    I’ve noticed that it always seems to blow harder when it’s my turn to take the front in a group. Several mates have confirmed this suspicion. Some sort of conspiracy?

    October 17, 2011 at 7:35 pm #656073
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    Municipal Waste

    I’m sure it’s been a windy
    I’m sure it’s been a windy year in general đŸ˜•

    I actually got blown off my bike for the first time ever this year! Cycling home from work on a particularly exposed stretch of road between Eastbourne and Seaford I decided it might be safer to cycle on the grass verge rather than the road as I have hybrid tyres on.
    I tried to get up onto the verge at a point where there was a drop down to get onto the grass and at the exact moment I made the jump.. GUST! FACK!

    October 17, 2011 at 5:47 pm #656071
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    TchmilFan

    I truly hate Zeno’s paradox.
    X(
    I truly hate Zeno’s paradox. IT’S NOT A PARADOX. WTF MAKES IT PARADOXICAL?
    Oh look, you never arrive.

    0f course you never arrive (Imagine I’m John Cleese at this point), you’ve set the conditions of the whole thing such that you’ll never arrive.

    Nnnnnnnnnn-waaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAGH!

    Ooooh, look at me – motion is impossible.

    and relax

    I’m sorry, there’s supposed to be some cycling content? Er, don’t forget to take the lockring out of the Tracon hub if you’re truing your R-SYS wheel. There you go.

    October 15, 2011 at 9:42 pm #656069
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    Cuba

    Anyone remember earlier in
    Anyone remember earlier in the year, in the three months after Easter when it was tres windy for no seasonally apparent reason? I witnessed a cyclist travelling in the opposite direction (along Kennington Lane) experiencing the same head wind as me.

    I thought it was odd at the time but now I realise I was part of a ZENO? experiment.

    October 15, 2011 at 11:25 am #656067
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    paulfg42

    The older you get the
    The older you get the stronger the wind gets… and it’s always in your face.
    – Jack Nicklaus

    October 14, 2011 at 1:29 pm #656065
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    zanf

    londonplayer wrote:Couldn’t

    londonplayer wrote:
    Couldn’t we build a large windshield around the whole of the island of Britain? Thus preventing any strong winds from the Atlantic from ruining cycle commutes and leisure rides.

    Nature did that for us: its called “Ireland”

    October 14, 2011 at 8:31 am #656063
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    arrieredupeleton

    Lose the spacers and invert
    Lose the spacers and invert your stem if its pointing up. Stick it in the big ring and once you pass 30mph, you’ll be more concerned with air resistance and drag so the wind is irrelevant.***wakes up***

    I always think a strong wind is like an extra 2% on a gradient.

    October 13, 2011 at 7:18 pm #656061
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    viveLaPants

    dave_atkinson wrote:Wind

    dave_atkinson wrote:
    Wind comes directly down from above

    My wind comes from the bottom. đŸ˜€

    October 12, 2011 at 10:05 pm #656059
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    PeteH

    So what if you had two
    So what if you had two cyclists cycling in opposite directions along the same road. Do they both have headwinds?

    That’s, like, Zeno’s paradox. Wow. Heavy stuff.

    October 12, 2011 at 10:00 pm #656057
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    PhilRuss

    No, actually I’m so extremely
    No, actually I’m so extremely very fast that the wind never catches me and so I create a headwind even if I’m in a 100mph tailwind. Honest.
    P.R.

    October 12, 2011 at 7:44 pm #656055
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    paulfg42

    Is it getting more windy in
    Is it getting more windy in this country. Cycling in NE england, it seems to be windy every day.

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