I will never complain about the wind again..

essex-commuter
essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
edited April 2011 in Commuting chat
...after watching this!

http://inrng.com/?p=2160

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  • Neil Holland
    Neil Holland Posts: 109
    Wow. Windy.
  • ndru
    ndru Posts: 382
    In UK you experience either headwind or (in very very rare cases) tailwind, in NL you have sidewinds :)
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  • notsoblue
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,394
    riding in tight formation whilst having to heel the bike over at 15˚ into the wind right next to a canal. What could possibly go wrong?
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  • DaveHudson
    DaveHudson Posts: 290
    It was pretty windy in Essex this morning, Not quite that bad though. :lol:
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    That was rather amusing, the guy with the red Cervelo looked like he was going in the canal :-)

    I have a simple solution, ditch Cervelo as your team bike of choice and use Apollo - you could put one of those in a hurricane and it wouldn't shift :-D
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  • shm_uk
    shm_uk Posts: 683
    ndru wrote:
    In UK you experience ... tailwind

    ... wait! is that the sound of a squadron of flying pigs approaching?

    I once also saw a unicorn and swam with mermaids.

    Tailwind.

    Good one.
  • ThatBikeGuy
    ThatBikeGuy Posts: 394
    I had some serious sidewind today, not too pleasant when you're going down country lanes with a 60mph speed limit :lol:
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  • ndru
    ndru Posts: 382
    shm_uk wrote:
    ndru wrote:
    In UK you experience ... tailwind

    ... wait! is that the sound of a squadron of flying pigs approaching?

    I once also saw a unicorn and swam with mermaids.

    Tailwind.

    Good one.
    True - I don't know if that's the case in London, but in the morning I get headwind riding from east to west and then in the afternoon I get headwind riding from west to east. But then again sometimes it seems that no matter which way you turn the headwind is there waiting for you and quietly giggling.
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  • essex-commuter
    essex-commuter Posts: 2,188
    DaveHudson wrote:
    It was pretty windy in Essex this morning, Not quite that bad though. :lol:

    It was and I will suffer going home :(
    5 minutes ahead of schedule this morning though! :)
  • Mr Plum
    Mr Plum Posts: 1,097
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    That was rather amusing, the guy with the red Cervelo looked like he was going in the canal :-)

    Amazing, at least he was laughing about it though.

    The most impressive bit was the through-and-off right near the end in tight formation whilst leaning into the sidewind.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    :lol:

    Very cool. What's equally impressive is the number of little old ladies on huge dutch bikes I've seen pedalling into massive headwinds and leaning into massive sidewinds whilst going about their business.

    The translation of the text on bit where the guy who can't get on his bike is 'yeah, yeah, Michael, you've got the lightest bike...'

    :lol:
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  • DaveHudson
    DaveHudson Posts: 290
    essex-commuter wrote:
    DaveHudson wrote:
    It was pretty windy in Essex this morning, Not quite that bad though. :lol:

    It was and I will suffer going home :(
    5 minutes ahead of schedule this morning though! :)

    Did you have a sail on your back? I was 5 minutes over my usual time and a little windswept :lol:
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    ThatBikeGuy wrote:
    I had some serious sidewind today, not too pleasant when you're going down country lanes with a 60mph speed limit :lol:

    Yes that was my ride home. As I live in Derbyshire, the speed limit was 50 not 60.

    It was the 180°veering that got me, and as I cycled up the hill I saw leaves being blown in both directions at the same time.
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  • Robstar24
    Robstar24 Posts: 173
    wind in southern england is nothing compared to what you can get up north. i spent 3 years in durham and the wind there is a howler even in summer. particularly intensified if you go anywhere hilly as the valleys tend to funnel the wind. still, it meant going west-east could be very fast indeed, particularly as the valleys go downhill in that direction anyway.
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    I do remember being blown sideways a bit heading home along The Highway last night. Not fun as I'm sure I shifted about 8" to the right and I was already pretty central in the LH lane due to passing a parked car!
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    There appears to be very little wind here at the moment.

    I'm sure this will change as 6 (when I leave) approaches. I will not credit a blazing ride in withouit paying for it on the way home.
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Tailwind this morning, I was at least one gear higher in most places on the way in....I kept looking round for the Unicorn escort.....

    Killer headwind on the way back, then at one point a hideous side wind, at least it was only trying to blow me into the ditch not the passing cars!

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