How bloody windy is it today!?

Siechotic
Siechotic Posts: 86
edited May 2008 in Campaign
Got up looked out of the window and saw the trees being nearly bent double with the wind!

Decided I would give a ride a go, but as soon as I hit the main roads the cross winds were quite literally blowing me into the ditches that line the roads around here!

I had a clipless moment, where I couldn't clip out quick enough and ended up in one of the ditches!! :cry:

The car that was following behind went straight on!!
Not that I needed them, but it would have been nice if they had checked to see if I was ok!

Bike was ok, but I was covered in the muddy water that had drained from the fields.

Not a nice feeling riding back home, fighting the hurricane strength wind with a bum pad full of ditch water! :shock:

Ah well, best go clean the bike down, it looks like I have been riding it for hours and hours through muddy fields - not just 20 minutes up the road!

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  • cyclinggirl
    cyclinggirl Posts: 196
    Yes, very windy here too in sunny Catterick, North Yorkshire. You where brave even attempting to go out in this wind.
    BTW, just looked at your bike pic, it's a great looking machine.

    Hope you have no lasting effects from the fall and hopefully this wind will die down soon.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    Not too bad ion N wales - was horrible yesterday mind

    Went for a ride up conwy mountain and then down to the beach to meet up with the girlies - played on the beach for an hour and then totally seized up cycling the 8km home into a driving wind and rain
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Siechotic
    Siechotic Posts: 86
    Thanks CyclingGirl.

    I don't think it was bravery I think it was stupidity! :lol:

    Apparently the severe wind is due to die down sometime around Wednesday/Thursday, according to weather girl on TV.
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    SURFS well up here in Derby.
    bagpuss
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    ddraver wrote:
    Not too bad ion N wales - was horrible yesterday mind

    You're having a laugh, it was awful today around Ruthin, I spent a lot more time in the 34 ring than I normally would.
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  • richk
    richk Posts: 564
    Went out this morning - set off at about 27 mph.... then turned a corner & was pedalling downhill at about 13 :shock:
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,708
    redddraggon wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    Not too bad ion N wales - was horrible yesterday mind

    You're having a laugh, it was awful today around Ruthin, I spent a lot more time in the 34 ring than I normally would.

    well possibly - I did wimp out and do b*gger all today
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    The winds been grinding me down recently. Doing 18-19mph on the drops on road where anything up to about 27 is possible is depressing.
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