Anyone been blown off?

sad Bastad

I have two panniers on my bike and weigh slightly less than 10 stone. A couple of times on my morning commute the wind caught me from the side and physically blew me further into the road. Fortunately not much traffic about at that time (6.00am) but unnerved me.
Found the best I could do to reduce the effect was hunker down and hold on hard to the handlebars!

linsen

Nearly got blown off yesterday on a coastal cycle - very unnerving. I'm driving today - forecast not looking good

spen666

what I do with my young lady in the privacy of our homes is our business and I am neither going to confirm or deny whether I have been blown off

snooks

Ooooh oooh oooh...

I can't wait for Greg T to arrive with a title like that!!!

girv73

@snooks you can't wait for Greg T to come ... and talk about being blown off ?

@OP yep I've been blown about like that before and I'm a few st. heavier than you! Some days my commute takes me along the "Shore Road" in Belfast - with a name like that you can imagine there are some heavy duty crosswinds at times. Also, I live in the hills, and it gets windy there too. Fact of life I'm afraid, just take extra care when it's blowy.

always_tyred

You get used to it and you find that you wobble a great deal less after a while.

I once got "sucked off" by the slipstream of a coach passing me at about 60mph a foot or two away from me. I'd annoyed him by so nearly getting knocked off by his first attempt to overtake, that he was forced to drop back and try again. Strangely, he was the only witness who didn't stop.

Tip to all drivers: if you are going to hit and run, ensure that you aren't driving a giant yellow vehicle with your employer's name written on all sides of it. :?

rapid_uphill

theres a older fatter version of paolo bettini who lives round here hes blown me off a few times. i suspect he doesnt cycle as far as i do.

DavidBelcher

Only once, when I was about 14-15 and had a paper round; the 'sail' effect of the big empty bag had disatrous consequences on the way home from deliveries!

David

edhornby

I found my back wheel was squirming quite a bit this morning and at one point I'd lost traction and it was sliding out from underneath me (managed to get it back tho..)

irrefutable proof I need to buy an MTB for winter commuting ! ha !!!

graeme_s-2

On a particularly windy day (windier than today) last winter another commuting cyclist was blown off his bike literally right in front of me. We were both hit by a gust from the right, which blew us both towards the kerb. He was riding closer to the curb than I was, so his bike struck the curb and he toppled over. I had to swerve round him to avoid hitting him/his bike, and then pulled up and checked he was ok while he got up. He said he was fine.

I just chalked it up as another reason not to ride in the gutter.

Littigator

The conditons recently have resulted in me getting blown all over the place recently. As for getting sucked off well, it's tough sometimes, but you just have to grit your teeth and hold off as hard as you can, but try as I might I sometimes don't have the power to resist and then I've spilled myself all over the place.

what ? :shock:

Finbar Saunders

I've never been blown off (fnarr fnarr) but I used to live in California and during the Santa Ana winds season you could regularly see cyclists riding along riding at an angle of about 85 degrees into the wind ( -> \ ) just to avoid being blown off course too much. It felt strange leaning into the wind but it just seemed to come naturally. I've also had gusts of head wind that have forced me from 10mph down to 1 or 2.

tomashford

I was cycling over a flyover once and the wind blew me into the barriers. It hurt. Luckily there were no cars behind.

DavidBelcher

13 posts on this thread so far, and not a single Italian Job pun as yet. Not even from anyone riding a "b****y Dawes".

David

gtvlusso

Not recently, but I am married.....

pst88

Had a few side winds make be feel a bit unstable but never to the point of actually coming off.

Kieran_Burns

I did once get knocked off by a Tornado.



Bloody idiot was flying so low he scared the living sh*t out of me and I fell off :oops:

Surf-Matt

Last night actually.

Ooops - wrong forum... :oops:



I tend to avoid riding in anything over a force 8.

ride_whenever

I remember reading about some guys touring from the bottom of south america to the top of north america, they had to cycle leaning at 45 degrees in pategonia, but the winds are really unpredictable so they'd be cycling along, the wind would suddenly stop and they'd all fall off!

I've not had any issues, but I'm fairly fat.

Bagman

not since i got married

linsen

Bagman wrote:

not since i got married

You obviously didn't read the small print when you signed the contract

N4PALM

DavidBelcher wrote:

13 posts on this thread so far, and not a single Italian Job pun as yet. Not even from anyone riding a "b****y Dawes".

David

I lol'd so hard I wish I'd thought of that one!

Bagman

linsen wrote:

Bagman wrote:

not since i got married

You obviously didn't read the small print when you signed the contract

Indeed. Eyesight was already failing by then. I was single for too long!

biondino

Linsen I'm sorry, but I've got to ask. Is your avatar a painted boob?

linsen

biondino wrote:

Linsen I'm sorry, but I've got to ask. Is your avatar a painted boob?

This is virtual living. It can be anything you want it to be

AndyManc

Anyone been blown off?

Not today .. cos I've got a week off work


Reminds me of the sign at the railway station.

DO NOT STAND CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF THE PLATFORM

OR YOU MAY GET SUCKED OFF.



I was stood there for weeks :oops:

Nick6891

i have been blown into the curb once, it was a very unexpected gail that just came from the side and pushed me into the cerb, then set me on a tumble but that is the only time it has ever made me fall off, alot of times i have been blown either way but control it before i come off normally, but its a real pain when its a head wind and its blowing you back

il_principe

I nearly got blown backwards going up Gospel pass back in March. If that'd been a sidewind it would have been trouble.

Blown off in Wales, not sure that's something I'd want to experience...

doog442

Nick6891 wrote:

i have been blown into the curb once, it was a very unexpected gail that just came from the side and pushed me into the cerb, then set me on a tumble but that is the only time it has ever made me fall off, alot of times i have been blown either way but control it before i come off normally, but its a real pain when its a head wind and its blowing you back

never had the pleasure of being blown off by a Gail however my old commute alongside poole harbour was always quite interesting in a south westerly..which seemed to happen most days.....

iain_j

Nearly, several times.

Years ago, riding to university one particularly blustery day, I was battling against the wind and I suddenly got skewed into the kerb, then next second, bam, a gust from the other side and I'm out in the middle of the road. Didn't get blown off but stood at the kerb for a minute thinking "what the bloody hell happened then?!"

A couple of years ago, riding over World's End and Eclusham Mountain with a tailwind. It made for a spectacularly easy climb, but heading down the other side it was giving me trouble. I was going faster than I was happy with for the corners, but despite braking the wind kept shoving me in the back and accelerating me again. Not to mention when the road started turning and it became a side-wind :shock:

Last winter, riding home from work with a fairly fierce tailwind, watching leaves, litter, branches and all sorts being blown across the road in front of me, thinking "hehe, this is fun". Went past a side street and I suddenly found myself going sideways towards the middle of the road (it was a wiiiide road too)

OldSkoolKona

Feck, its going to be a moist ride home tonight :shock: