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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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  • October 11, 2011 at 2:27 pm #656053
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    londonplayer

    Couldn’t we build a large
    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.

    October 11, 2011 at 7:21 am #656051
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    nick_rearden

    Surely it’s related to the
    Surely it’s related to the famous Greg Lemond quote along the lines of cycling “never getting any easier; you just get faster.”

    Put another way, if you’re always going as fast as you can you are quite literally riding into an ever-increasing headwind as air resistance increases on that logarithmic scale thingie.

    The trick is to slow down. I will try to convince myself of this as I’m struggling in this morning.

    October 11, 2011 at 6:58 am #656049
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    road slapper

    I was asking myself the same
    I was asking myself the same question only the other day ‘Why is it, i do a circular route but am always riding into wind…?’ 😕

    October 11, 2011 at 6:34 am #656047
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    dave atkinson

    Wind comes directly down from
    Wind comes directly down from above and blows in all directions at once. I thought everyone knew that.

    October 10, 2011 at 11:27 pm #656045
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    Tony Farrelly

    ah but when the wind is
    ah but when the wind is behind you you get to the lights too soon and you have to stop… obviously not everyone actually does. Not sure what happens to them

    October 10, 2011 at 11:14 pm #656043
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    londonplayer

    surely you should be able to
    surely you should be able to go much faster when the wind is behind you? but I have never actually experienced this. anybody?

    October 10, 2011 at 9:36 pm #656041
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    Tony Farrelly

    It would also need to take
    It would also need to take into account the related phenomenon that when you are cycling with a tailwind the lights are always red, but when you’ve got a headwind they are always green… just, if you sprint for ’em and you always do.

    October 10, 2011 at 9:28 pm #656039
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    londonplayer

    I think this is worthy of a
    I think this is worthy of a PhD theses.

    October 10, 2011 at 9:25 pm #656037
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    Tony Farrelly

    Funnily enough I noticed that
    Funnily enough I noticed that only today. Again

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