Headwind!!
Pufftmw
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Oooh - for all you lucky people heading West/South West tonight, you are in for a treat 
Just cycled through town to Covent Garden from Aldgate and it was lovely and strong. I wasn't helping it by being on the Gary and the tyres need some air but I think you WILL feel it...
Have fun
Just cycled through town to Covent Garden from Aldgate and it was lovely and strong. I wasn't helping it by being on the Gary and the tyres need some air but I think you WILL feel it...
Have fun
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2010 Ghost 5000
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2009 Scott Spark 60
2010 Ghost 5000
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2012 Commencal Meta AM1
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was a killer headwind last night running west across across blackheath towards deptford.
wind sucks (or should that be blows?)Hat + Beard0 -
Pufftmw wrote:Oooh - for all you lucky people heading West/South West tonight, you are in for a treat
Just cycled through town to Covent Garden from Aldgate and it was lovely and strong. I wasn't helping it by being on the Gary and the tyres need some air but I think you WILL feel it...
Have fun
How is that possible when there was a headwind coming in this morning? Does mother nature simply not abide by fairness? Is she in cahoots with the puncture fairy?0 -
Ride home for lunch today, avg 14.2 mph, back to the office 19.8. 'King wind! At least the sun was a
Shining!FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
Litespeed L3 for Strava bits
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.0 -
Is there any other type of wind?Steve C0
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I died on the way home tonight - struggled every step of the way. Sections where I would normally be cruising in 6th at about 19mph I was struggling in 4th at 14.
That was not fun.
I even pulled in to let a couple of lorries past. I knew I was massively holding them up with the wind slowing me down. It didn't seem fair they had to suffer as well.Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Kieran_Burns wrote:I died on the way home tonight - struggled every step of the way. Sections where I would normally be cruising in 6th at about 19mph I was struggling in 4th at 14.
That was not fun.
I even pulled in to let a couple of lorries past. I knew I was massively holding them up with the wind slowing me down. It didn't seem fair they had to suffer as well.
So you let lorries past and did not draft them? I disappoint.
unless they went past too quick...
I had a bit of wind around here too, but it just so happened that it was head/tail there and back. Better than constant side wind! :P0 -
W1 wrote:Pufftmw wrote:Oooh - for all you lucky people heading West/South West tonight, you are in for a treat
Just cycled through town to Covent Garden from Aldgate and it was lovely and strong. I wasn't helping it by being on the Gary and the tyres need some air but I think you WILL feel it...
Have fun
How is that possible when there was a headwind coming in this morning? Does mother nature simply not abide by fairness? Is she in cahoots with the puncture fairy?
Genuinely didn't feel that this morning; it felt worse going west. WTH?FCN 2-4.
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JonGinge wrote:Bit confused. Didn't seem much wind in either direction. :? Chilly, though. Brrr
Ditto, no wind at all - just checked the wind map http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ it concurs no wind.
MTFU the lot of you. :roll:Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
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MTFU!
I commute along the coast, there's always wind!
It makes the sailors happy however! 0 -
I seem to act like a wind magnet no matter which way I go.....even managed to get a headwind in Blackfriars tunnel last night.0
