Wind.

[chickwhorips]

reading this makes me glad i moved out of cold bay and to anchorage. no wind here, well compared to cold bay. if you had anything below 20 mph in cold bay it was considered calm.

[spokewench]

It is perpetually windy in Flagstaff during the Spring and sometimes during the Fall. Although Saturday was a blessing we had almost no wind! What a break.

You get used to riding in wind around here cause if you want to ride you ride in wind. When it is gusting 50-60 mph, then it is just TOO WINDY.

I rode in that last year and it was REALLY, REALLY SCARY - I was also on a brand new to me 16 pound bike with arrow spokes. What out for sideways wind- That is just too much for me.

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

"Ooooooooooh-klahoma where the wind comes sweepin' down the plains"
yeah...

30+ no thanks
Anything less and I'll get laughed at for not going. :P

I like that quote - Hills make you stronger, but wind makes you meaner... however that goes. Good one!!!!

[Jenn]

reading this makes me glad i moved out of cold bay and to anchorage. no wind here, well compared to cold bay. if you had anything below 20 mph in cold bay it was considered calm.

OH how I miss Anchorage! We are trying to get orders back there as we speak, Elmendorf was the BEST assignment ever, I'm envious. However, how do you train in the winter??? I know we had studded tires on the car, does Bontrager have them?

[Wahine]

When it's really windy, I go windsurfing. Much more fun than cycling in the wind.

[annie]

I'll fight a headwind up to 25-30 mph, but I hate crosswinds!! Both are a struggle; to keep pedaling, to keep your bike straight, to mentally not give up. Headwinds are simply a struggle of wind against pedaling power to keep one moving. Crosswinds test your control of the bike, your stereing, your balance, your strength, your reaction time. Much more challenging, IMO.

Annie

[chickwhorips]

oooooohhhhhh windsurfing......

jenn not sure about riding here in anchoarge. i know people get studded tires. out in cold bay, i didn't have to worry that much. didn't get much snow. i'll let you know next winter, or if all goes well you can experience it with me. otherwise i'll be bugging sarahlou to help me out.

[cosc]

Crosswinds are worse than headwinds. Passing vehicles can toss you around in the wind and you have to hang on for dear life. My new road bike is more difficult to control in windy conditions than any bikes I have ridden in the past. I'm sure part of it is my upper body strength just isn't what it should be.

[CR400]

I won't ride when the wind blows me farther backward then I can go foreward. I have always wanted to go out and ride on those days with 60+mph gusts but they are always in the winter. So the wind chill would be horrible. I rode a few weeks ago and one of my really strong cycling buddies got stuck in a headwind that forced him down to 12mph. That type of wind likely would have had me at 4mph or less.

[Jenn]

I'll fight a headwind up to 25-30 mph, but I hate crosswinds!! Both are a struggle; to keep pedaling, to keep your bike straight, to mentally not give up. Headwinds are simply a struggle of wind against pedaling power to keep one moving. Crosswinds test your control of the bike, your stereing, your balance, your strength, your reaction time. Much more challenging, IMO.

Annie

Talk about crosswinds, I had a few hit me this morning that I thought it was going to take the bike right out from under me, didn't like it much.