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Bad wind today 11.1.07
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:01 am
by bigblackfalco
I'm interested to know if anyone dared ride a bike today?
I chickened out.....think it's something to with the various bits of shrubbery I can see getting ripped out the garden.
Bailey.
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:02 am
by Black Knight
Sorry, think it was that kebab last night
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:50 am
by Duggers
you were wise, I did and nearly got taken out by a plastic storage crate that decided to wanted to cross the a12 near Gants Hill and then by a sheet of plastic formerly covering the side of a portacabin on the lorry I was following.
Should be a quick trip home though
Ian
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:34 pm
by jltownshend
50 miles this Morning...and 50 back tonight...
Filtering in rushour at 8 requires a little more timing when the wind is a bit fresh...
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:53 pm
by horse27
I did as I always do - cos I'm stupid ... only 15 miles each way though. Crossing a couple of motorway bridges caught me by surprise
Thank god for bulk and long wheel bases.
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:28 pm
by JoeC
Rode the S to work and then my Fazer 600 home.
Been in worse weather but I found the wind worse in town when the side roads catch you out.
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:04 pm
by Boxadog 2000
Used the car thankfully as I was driving past Hughenden Triumph a branch about 3ft long crashed into the top of the car just about where my head would have been if I had been on the rare red GS.
Bob
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:41 pm
by BockingBandit
Well,.. just the 517 miles today, .... I can live with the gales.. and I can live with the rain,.. but both together was hell at times
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:49 pm
by BlueBoxer
Out today on the normal commute to work
Didn't seem that windy to and from St Helens / Runcorn. Very wet mind
Steve
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:01 pm
by bigblackfalco
Some of the gusts up here in Cambridge were ferocious.....the type that blow you from one side of the road on to the other!
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:14 pm
by Gromit
Oh to be on an ST1100....er....not.
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:51 pm
by Ade B
N16 to Kingston & back - there was more tree branches about than usual..
Found it worst at the lights with the bike stationary..
Ade
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:52 pm
by jivebiker
Watching my garden fence blow to bits just 10 minutes before I left for work gave me food for thought... but the actual ride (25 miles) was OK.
When I got to work I had a wet belly where the wind had blown the rain up under my jacket... that's never happened before.
I was out in the hurricane in '87 (the Michael Fish one!) but didnt think that was too bad until an articulated lorry I was lining up to pass just seemed to fall over in front of me. Once I'd stopped and got off the bike I could hardly stand up in the wind!