Wind - Its been a hard week

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Can't remember a week where the wind has been so bad, and its been every day, so I am glad its Friday, and I am hanging up the wheels till Monday, plus a coach driver has the cheek to indicate to me I should be on the cycle path, to which I smiled at him, and gave him the two fingers, not very grown up, but its Friday and he deserved it !

have a nice weekend all, lets hope for better weather next week !

 

[potsy]

Tough week for sure,yesterday was the worst for me,straight into a headwind most of the way home.Don't care what it does next week as I'm on holiday

 

[hambones]

I've found it quite enjoyable in a masochistic way. Slow struggle into work but flying home, and amazingly a PB for a 10TT rolling course by almost a minute!

That said I'm hoping it will calm down by Sunday as I have some big mileage planned....

 

[BSRU]

As I live close to work, I extend my route by cycling a figure of eight pattern, so I wherever the wind comes from parts of my ride are helped and other parts are not.

 

[zimzum42]

Did a big loop of South London this afternoon hoping to get the benefit of the tailwind on the way home.

I got that for a bit, but damn was it windy. Going down towards New Cross and Lewisham I nearly got blown off a few times, damn deep section rims!

 

[fossyant]

Great riding fixed...........hah hah..................... I am sure BM will be around to say his F1 machine is even faster...........

 

[John the Monkey]

Not on the way *in* it ain't.

 

[DrSquirrel]

Tail wind - ace.
Head wind - training.

Side wind - murder.

 

[al78]

I did a PB into work today, 15.1 mph avg, beating the old record by 0.1 mph. I thought that I was going to face a horrendous headwind on the way home this evening but thankfully the wind had died down somewhat and had turned more westerly so it was now more a crosswind. Thus I averaged 17.5 mph on the leg home which is about normal.

I was tired on Thursday so drove into work that day. Glad I did, as that was the windiest day and I would have been concerned about falling tree limbs had I been out on the bike.

 

[addictfreak]

Yep its been hard into the wind for sure, but that's good training.
The tailwind has been fantastic, 30mph yesterday up an incline where I'm usually doing 16 max. Felt like a pro!

 

[Browser]

I sympathise Kev, I had headwind going to work yesterday and that was my first shift of this set of four. Tailwind going home was OK, until I turned across it Managed to get up to 33mph on the flat though so not all bad

 

[BentMikey]

Whenever there's a fast cyclist around I tend to hope for headwinds, as they maximise my advantage!!

 

[AndyCarolan]

Managed to get out yesterday for a quick ride, dont know if the riding position on a road bike is better for headwind, but sitting up on an MTB was er interesting.

Shouldnt have warn my waterproof pac-a-mac... it was like wearing a sail :/

 

[hackbike 666]

Bloody southern softies.

Fifth commute today...two left after this.


Edited yet again.

 

[buddha]

I blame the wind for me just having an off.


Turning left off a wide main road and I could feel myself being 'pushed' over (thankfully no traffic around). Wasn't going too fast, honest

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Now minus a couple of sq. inches of skin on my arm, and a sore hip. Bike's fine though