Epic 26mph winds today...

Bhima
Bhima Posts: 2,145
edited September 2009 in The bottom bracket
Anyone else getting them? Or is it just me in Manchester? Luckily, I swapped my deep-v rims for something more stable before leaving the house... Was still getting blown about though.

Struggled to get to 13mph going into the city centre! :shock: Got to 30 easy on the way out though. 8) (Could have gone faster probably, but the roads didn't allow it. :() Overtook cyclists going about 5mph and wobbling about, as they struggled to hold the front wheel straight.

Is it just me, or is the wind getting more and more ridiculous as each day goes by...? :?
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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    agreed - the weather is getting stupid. Round here at the moment, if it ain't raining hard it's blowing a gale - and if it ain't blowing a gale, it's raining hard. Sometimes, it does both at the same time..

    Looking out to the sea at the moment, I can see white water in the bay, which usually means that the wind is at least force 5...
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Come to the lakes chaps... Me and APIII off here went for a 3 hour jaunt last friday and got every kind of weather you could imagine. HOwling winds, glorious sunshine, stair-rod rain and so on...
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    edited September 2009
    If you don't like the weather, you can always emigrate.
    I always record the weather for my rides (sad but true), I average the windspeeds for local weather stations off http://www.weatheronline.co.uk as estimates always exaggerate the headwind!
    About 1 in 30 rides exceeds 40kmh (i.e. 25mph) over the last few years.
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    bompington wrote:
    If you don't like the weather, you can always emigrate.

    I am! :D
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    bompington wrote:
    If you don't like the weather, you can always emigrate.

    funny you should mention that.... ;)
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    edited September 2009
    26mph? pffff you've got nothing on use here in Yorkshire 8) , 36mph 8) :lol:


    Saturday is going to be nice, 16mph/29mph sunny intervals, sunday is going to be 10mph/27mph, shame I'm working on Saturday :(, Sunday I might do 40 or so miles.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    ...but when I spent a year in Sydney a while back, I took great pleasure in pointing out to everyone there that the average annual rainfall in Sydney is twice as much as Dundee.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    bompington wrote:
    ...but when I spent a year in Sydney a while back, I took great pleasure in pointing out to everyone there that the average annual rainfall in Sydney is twice as much as Dundee.

    Rainfall does not matter when it's always hot though.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,822
    softlad wrote:
    agreed - the weather is getting stupid. Round here at the moment, if it ain't raining hard it's blowing a gale - and if it ain't blowing a gale, it's raining hard. Sometimes, it does both at the same time..

    Looking out to the sea at the moment, I can see white water in the bay, which usually means that the wind is at least force 5...

    Did you hear about the whale that washed up in Barry the other day?!? I swear there were white bits floating around in the rain yesterday, mental!
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    The wind was mega lashing it, it was like a wall, the last time I went in a wind like this was last year where I struggled to get 12mph, at that same struggling I was getting about 18mph, but I did 21 miles today so to get round it I had to not struggle as much so I went about 15-16 mph but some parts got me down to 14, then you had cars nearly crashing into your due to being impatient. Was getting blown all over the road into a sidewind, I wish Garmins could read wind speed I'd have liked to have known what my average headwind speed was.

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/12495052

    Some of it was like going up hill, I was off the saddle pedalling, felt like 8% gradient :lol:, I think I'm happy with my ride today, I feel fresh after it, if I knew I was going to do that distance I'd have done a 35mile loop with some drags in it.

    Tbh, I'd rather the wind is lashing all the time like this, we'd all be going around like it was a small breeze eventually. The only reason I went out today was because I seen how strong the wind is and I thought I wanted to test myself in it.
  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    WInd was bad this morning up near Leeds Bradford Airport - it always blows up the Chevin. Felt stronger than 36mph up there - I was leaning into the wind on the crosswind section
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Wohoo, love riding in the wind, smashed my flat top speed this evening - 40.1mph on the Genesis Vapour, pity about the grind into wind this morning :lol:
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    freehub wrote:
    Sunday I might do 40 or so miles.

    Evans Sportive on Sunday if you can get over to Harewood! 30, 60 and 90 mile options.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    I'd consider the 60 that's be 100 or so miles for me, 130 if I did the 90. but I can't even afford £12.50 atm!!
  • Bhima
    Bhima Posts: 2,145
    So has anyone got an explaination for this weather?

    It's been quite warm in the evenings and freeeeezing in the mornings - is it something to do with the extreme temperature changes?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Bhima wrote:
    So has anyone got an explaination for this weather?

    It's been quite warm in the evenings and freeeeezing in the mornings - is it something to do with the extreme temperature changes?

    It's God's way of trying to get Sky to hurry up and announce their rider line up for 2010.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    freehub wrote:
    I'd consider the 60 that's be 100 or so miles for me, 130 if I did the 90. but I can't even afford £12.50 atm!!

    Probably just as well - I'm doing the 60 so you'd just be someone else doing it quicker than me :lol:
    Faster than a tent.......
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Bhima wrote:
    So has anyone got an explaination for this weather?

    It's been quite warm in the evenings and freeeeezing in the mornings - is it something to do with the extreme temperature changes?

    Um ever heard of low pressure, isobars (not food :roll: ) etc? Or have the dumbed down weather forcasts become so ingrained that noone understands more to weather than whether it's raining or not?
  • ademort
    ademort Posts: 1,924
    Here in Zeeland, Netherlands we always have wind so its usually not something you even think about when going out on the bike either to work, usually 5 to 6 days per week or on the good bike for a good ride out.However, while doing backshift, a one-off to help out in a crisis at work we had a storm. I cycled home at 01.30am in 110 KM/h winds and the heaviest rainfall i,ve ever experienced in my life. At one point i was riding at 9KM/h with the wind blowing me all over the place on the cycle lane. My usual commute time is 30 minutes +- on this occasion i got home in 54 Minutes. I passed one other cyclist who had a normal city bike with panniers on and he could not even ride his bike. Hope he got home ok.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    I hit 55kph on an ever-so-slight downhill last night doing a TT interval. God bless tailwinds.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I hit 55kph on an ever-so-slight downhill last night doing a TT interval. God bless tailwinds.

    Just because you use kph doesn't make it sound faster :lol:
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    will3 wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I hit 55kph on an ever-so-slight downhill last night doing a TT interval. God bless tailwinds.

    Just because you use kph doesn't make it sound faster :lol:

    In my head it makes me a Euro Cyclist.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    I hit 55kph on an ever-so-slight downhill last night doing a TT interval. God bless tailwinds.

    Just because you use kph doesn't make it sound faster :lol:

    In my head it makes me a Euro Cyclist.
    :lol:

    in that case I did 64kph :roll: :lol:
    (or 107 896.32 furlongs per fortnight)
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Today I think the winds where stronger, I was not using much effort on my winter bike today, jeans and baggy fleece on aswell as a backpack and I was going along at 31mph on the flat :lol:, but into the wind today was a different story, I'm sure it's stronger, I was on the way home going along around 23mph, then I turned left...... it hit me, I was struggling to keep the bike straight and was down to 12-13mph, some cars came by I had to cloose my mouth I looked stupid, the wind was making my face flap about all over the place.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    It was bl00dy hard work today coming into work.

    Horrendous crosswind and 10kg pack on back did not make for a happy NapoleonD.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    NapoleonD wrote:
    It was bl00dy hard work today coming into work.

    Horrendous crosswind and 10kg pack on back did not make for a happy NapoleonD.

    10kg? that's a feck of a lot of clean uniform you're taking to work.
  • drewfromrisca
    drewfromrisca Posts: 1,165
    That's all the doughnuts :wink:

    Or been taking the cuffs home to practise NapoleonD?!?!? :lol:
    There is never redemption, any fool can regret yesterday...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    will3 wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    It was bl00dy hard work today coming into work.

    Horrendous crosswind and 10kg pack on back did not make for a happy NapoleonD.

    10kg? that's a feck of a lot of clean uniform you're taking to work.

    The boots weigh a freakin' ton!
    Four days worth of uniform, towel, food, repair stuff...

    At least the journey home will be lighter! Although it will be late and crap weather...
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    How big is this backpack? I struggle to fit a change of clothes in mine and it's not exactly small.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    My package is quite big.

    So is the backpack :o

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