Head wind?

Found this neat wind map today. You can zoom onto a location.
http://hint.fm/wind/

Lies...I always seem to have a headwind when I ride. I swear Mother Nature sits and laughs at me as I curse her! :p

I also always feel like I'm riding into a headwind!! And there's always that pesky shifting wind problem... Go out into the wind and when you head back... what? the wind has shifted? I'd take hills any day - at least they have an endpoint.

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Originally Posted by zoom-zoom

Lies...I always seem to have a headwind when I ride. I swear Mother Nature sits and laughs at me as I curse her! :p

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I was out for a brutal windy ride last week with a friend. We kept consoling ourselves that we'd have a nice tail wind on the way back. Curses, that dang wind shifted and battled us the entire way home.

You folks from west Michigan have some serious wind coming off the lake. I have done quite a few centuries on that side of the state and the wind is brutal. Always!

Oh yeah, light and variable. Light? whatever!:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by beccaB

You folks from west Michigan have some serious wind coming off the lake. I have done quite a few centuries on that side of the state and the wind is brutal. Always!

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It's stupid wind. Limewave isn't kidding...I swear I can plan a ride so that I ride into a headwind, then turn and coast home...but it NEVER happens! And frequently the ride home is uphill, too! :rolleyes:

Unbeknownst to all of us, every road bike is equipped with an great big huge invisible fan which is rigged to blow directly in our faces. This means that no matter how carefully you plan your route so that you ride out into the wind and ride back, it will never ever happen. This also why you can ride a circular route or a triangular route or a square route or any sort of route with and without trees to break the wind and still have a headwind.

Somewhere up there the fates are laughing.

marni

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Originally Posted by marni

Unbeknownst to all of us, every road bike is equipped with an great big huge invisible fan which is rigged to blow directly in our faces. This means that no matter how carefully you plan your route so that you ride out into the wind and ride back, it will never ever happen. This also why you can ride a circular route or a triangular route or a square route or any sort of route with and without trees to break the wind and still have a headwind.

Somewhere up there the fates are laughing.

marni

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She speaks the truth!

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Originally Posted by marni

Unbeknownst to all of us, every road bike is equipped with an great big huge invisible fan which is rigged to blow directly in our faces. This means that no matter how carefully you plan your route so that you ride out into the wind and ride back, it will never ever happen. This also why you can ride a circular route or a triangular route or a square route or any sort of route with and without trees to break the wind and still have a headwind.

Somewhere up there the fates are laughing.

marni

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This is soooooo very, very true.

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Originally Posted by marni

Unbeknownst to all of us, every road bike is equipped with an great big huge invisible fan which is rigged to blow directly in our faces. This means that no matter how carefully you plan your route so that you ride out into the wind and ride back, it will never ever happen. This also why you can ride a circular route or a triangular route or a square route or any sort of route with and without trees to break the wind and still have a headwind.

Somewhere up there the fates are laughing.

marni

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This is absolutely the truth. I can control the wind with my bicycle. I'm trying to figure out a way to make money with this power.

LOL. I just get crosswinds. Every. time.

I must admit, headwinds just defeat me. Even if I maintain my pace I feel like crap.

It is mesmerizing. Thanks

I loved the wind map- I shared it with students today.

Just had my butt kicked by winds, and was wiped out after only five miles. I gotta get in better shape. :(

Love the wind map! I just wish it would show LOW winds where I'm going to be riding. Not the case today, sigh...... looking at 17-25- mph. Again. :(

SR