How much wind can you endure?

[Thorn]

Yep, funny you should ask....I'd have said I was a wind wuss, but I finished that century anyway yesterday. Over the course of the day winds were 13-22 mph with gusts hitting 29. Most of the route was farmland--flat, former glacial lakebed, unplanted corn, wind-comes-sweeping-o'er-the-plain flat.

I wasn't sure a spring century was in the books for me (it was not a great winter around here for riding), but the course was a clover leaf pattern--three loops with a central reststop. Lots of opportunities to jump ship.

We finished the first two loops in OK shape and the third loop headed out into the wind. So we went. According to NOAA, that pull into the wind was the strongest wid of the day. It was also the most open of the day--very few wind breaks.

The pull into the wind was just shy of 12 miles and about 10 times I seriously contemplated turning around, but I couldn't....you see, this was my Waterford's first century, we were riding out of Waterford, WI and the sag driver for the third loop was Richard Schwinn. A bizarre bike-geeky peer pressure said that my Waterford just *had* to finish that loop or....or....I dont know, maybe he'd take my bike away because I didn't deserve it?

But, we made it and darn proud of ourselves. So, call me wind wuss no more!

[pll]

Another wind wuss here... Today I rode 55 miles and the wind was killing me, I had to work hard on areas that were downhill, on others, I could feel the bike pushed sideways. But more than the wind itself, I hate the sound of the wind in my ears. Am I the only one? Has anyone found some solution? I while ago, I saw the following: http://bikehugger.com/2007/06/slipst...muters_and.htm
(I'm only interested in reducing the wind noise, no headphones for me.)

[Miranda]

Another wind wuss here... Today I rode 55 miles and the wind was killing me, I had to work hard on areas that were downhill, on others, I could feel the bike pushed sideways. But more than the wind itself, I hate the sound of the wind in my ears. Am I the only one? Has anyone found some solution? I while ago, I saw the following: http://bikehugger.com/2007/06/slipst...muters_and.htm
(I'm only interested in reducing the wind noise, no headphones for me.)

Try a cycling head band. I own one, and like it. I don't like the wind riping on my ears either. Maybe I'm just more prone to ear aches, but the head band helps. Some are made with a ponytail hole in the back too. That is a nice perk. In one of my LBS I saw something called "Dog Earz" (sp?). They were the same concept of what you have posted in this link.