Is it just me, or is the wind NEVER behind you?

[CopperCyclist]

Seriously! It's always hindering me, never helping. I don't get it! Common sense says if the commute in is harder, the commute home should be easier (if the wind is still blowing) but somehow it never seems to work that way...

 

[Arch]

See, you're forgetting to take into account the fact that the earth is turning.

Ride in, into the wind, by home time the earth has revolved and you're actually riding the same direction again.

Or something.

I do know that even if you get a tailwind, about once a century, it's never as strong as the wind going the other way.

I was once riding back towards work, when I saw a colleague riding home coming towards me, on Stockton Lane. We passed each other with gritted teeth greetings, as we were both riding into a headwind.

 

[numbnuts]

I have ridden a circular routes many times with a head wind all the time
I think it is to do with the wind fairies or maybe goblins

 

[steve52]

its like rideing down hill its over far more quickly that the ride up, so it is with tailwinds and diveing boads (it looks twice as high looking down than it did looking up)

 

[twobiker]

Rode in a westerly direction , wind in face, came home easterly direction , wind in face, sods law.

 

[Nigeyy]

Distinctly remember cycling to school in a massive headwind (not a cross wind), cursing all those painful miles in.

Almost cried on the same way back when I found the wind had changed almost 180 degrees.....

Seriously! It's always hindering me, never helping. I don't get it! Common sense says if the commute in is harder, the commute home should be easier (if the wind is still blowing) but somehow it never seems to work that way...

 

[DCLane]

I'd go with the wind fairies. Yesterday morning coming in (traveling NE) ... a headwind. yesterday evening (traveling SW) ... a bigger headwind. ????

 

[thefollen]

I always felt that even if a wind is technically a 'tailwind', if you're cycling faster than the wind it'll feel like a headwind since you're catching up with it. I.e 15mph tail wind, travelling at 25mph = 10mph headwind? Of course I may just be talking out of my behind.

 

[CopperCyclist]

I always felt that even if a wind is technically a 'tailwind', if you're cycling faster than the wind it'll feel like a headwind since you're catching up with it. I.e 15mph tail wind, travelling at 25mph = 10mph headwind? Of course I may just be talking out of my behind.

I like this answer. Seems to make sense! So we'll only start feeling tailwinds if they are 30mph plus

 

[HLaB]

The worst for headwinds are the Scottish Glen, there always seems to be one. I've cycled almost directly north through Glen Devon turned 180deg and cycled south through the almost parallel Dunning Glen and still had a head wind

 

[400bhp]

You're a copper so you should know a headwind is THE LAW

 

[coffeejo]

Rode in a westerly direction , wind in face, came home easterly direction , wind in face, sods law.

Were you the stoker to a curry-eating captain?

 

[Edge705]

Seriously! It's always hindering me, never helping. I don't get it! Common sense says if the commute in is harder, the commute home should be easier (if the wind is still blowing) but somehow it never seems to work that way...

+1

 

[Bicycle]

I've never experienced a tailwind.

There are times when I manage previously unimaginable average speeds on a commute, but that's down to my athleticism and proper preparation.

Headwinds, on the other hand, are a scourge wherever I find them. It is not unusual for me to ride into a headwind in one direction and then discover new powers of cycling in the other.

What the cause of this coincidence is, I cannot say.

 

[postman]

Only this monday gone.I cycled with a mate to Easingwold and back naturally.It was great going.But that area is so lvely and flat.You cannot escape headwinds.I was dead when i got home.I have only just started to recover.30 miles battling against it.Horrible.