Getting tired of the wind lately

[GTRMAN]

Don't know about you guys but the amount of wind lately is getting to be a pain (100kph +)

[Hitcher]

Indeed. Somebody I know would like to go and test ride some bikes.

[Paul in NZ]

Bah! Not good for fishing or motorcycling....

I've had to resort to painting things in the house. Desperate times....

[Tigadee]

:blip: Winds mean getting knee down without actually cornering... I get leaned over pretty good coming over open areas when it's windy... :laugh:

Seriously, I mind high winds more than wet conditions... Wet doesn't make me nervous any more, but farking strong winds still do.

[GTRMAN]

Have to say the sudden gusts when you crest the top of the Wainui hill does leave you twitching some mornings

[Tigadee]

...does leave you twitching some mornings

Which parts? Das sphincter?

[Maki]

It´s all relative, isn't it? The wind speed is actually just a percentage of your actual speed. Riding at 50 kph when the wind is blowing 100 kph is a true danger since the wind is blowing at twice your velocity. The solution is to up your speed to around 200 kph and then the wind is only half your speed and you will barely notice it. You will also reach yer ultimate destination faster :woohoo:

[Phantom Limb]

Pulled out to pass a logging truck the other day. Sudden exposure to the head wind made my arse leave the seat for a while.
Now I know why cruiser riders wear arseless chaps, in order to get a good sphincter suction effect on the seat.

[GTRMAN]

It´s all relative, isn't it? The wind speed is actually just a percentage of your actual speed. Riding at 50 kph when the wind is blowing 100 kph is a true danger since the wind is blowing at twice your velocity. The solution is to up your speed to around 200 kph and then the wind is only half your speed and you will barely notice it. You will also reach yer ultimate destination faster :woohoo:


Maybe if the wind is either directly in front or behind, from the side? Not so much...

[GTRMAN]

Which parts? Das sphincter?

Sie ay gut denken, aber ich konnte unmöglich Kommentar

[Maki]

Maybe if the wind is either directly in front or behind, from the side? Not so much...

If you ever sailed boats you would understand the apparent wind. It is a vector calculated by adding the wind vector and the speed vector of the vehicle. If the side wind remains constant the apparent wind from that direction will decrease as your speed perpendicular to it increases. The post was however meant as a joke, so please take it as such.

If you ask me seriously, my solution is to relax and ignore it. I have been a motorcycle commuter in Wellington for years and I find that the wind goes away if I just don't think about it. It is all in your head really.

[pzkpfw]

Season change is always gusty.

What I hate is if I do a trip I'm against a head wind, then turn around and go home and I'm still against a head wind.

I don't believe in God, but I suspect Satan may exist...

[Maha]

Wind must be a bit of a novelty in Wellington...:rolleyes:

[mulletman]

Crossing the causeway to bluff (for the hillclimb BM) is def dodgy, seen bikers blown onto the grass
verge or over the center line, you cant go too fast either as plods radaring constantly :mad:

[Maki]

Crossing the causeway to bluff (for the hillclimb BM) is def dodgy, seen bikers blown onto the grass
verge or over the center line, you cant go too fast either as plods radaring constantly :mad:

Amen. I was radar-ed recently while just barely keeping enough speed for the bike to stay upright. :mad:

[Str8 Jacket]

To be honest I reckon the wind is a lot better than it has been in recent years. Though you remind me that my bike cut out on me a couple of times this morning and I think it may just have been caused by a head wind.....

Keep ya revs high and ya arms loose and hang on!!

[Bassmatt]

Try working in it all day every day. Its gonna set me off, any day now....:ar15:

[bogan]

I have the problem that my bike (naked) notices the wind more than I (clothed but skinny) do. Keep thinking I've got flat tyres or have run over debri when a gust hits me.

Thankfully I have fixed the cross wind cut which used to change the pressure in part of the carbs and cause the fuel to cut out.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I'm blaming the three day old Palak Paneer I had for lunch yesterday for the wind. also the disturbing other effects.

[Tigadee]

Capsicum does that to me... That's why I avoid it.

[Paul in NZ]

To be honest I reckon the wind is a lot better than it has been in recent years. !

Rubbish - we had real wind in the old days - not like this modern rubbish... And it was properly made too, there was a bloke with an old Bedford who would deliver it to your house on a thursday...

[george formby]

Rubbish - we had real wind in the old days - not like this modern rubbish... And it was properly made too, there was a bloke with an old Bedford who would deliver it to your house on a thursday...

:clap: That post is well observed.

We had some decent wind a week or two ago & coming up onto the ridges getting the full brunt was a hoot. Still makes me laugh being banked over in a straight line & weaving like a drunkard.

[GTRMAN]

Rubbish - we had real wind in the old days - not like this modern rubbish... And it was properly made too, there was a bloke with an old Bedford who would deliver it to your house on a thursday...

And just for Paul.....


MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..

[G4L4XY]

Last week I took a few days off work to head down to Palmerston North
On thursday I left Taupo after staying with family and went across to Napier as the road to Turangi was closed. The ride over there was real nice, it was a windy day but it was manageable. After leaving Napier and heading to Dannevirke the winds increased tenfold.
I should've just stayed in Dannevirke and waited out the wind but no I decided to keep going.
I get to some roadworks which speed is set at 30kmph, at this point the wind is so strong it's pushing me right across to the left hand side of the road, my speed drops and drops until eventually I come to a stop. Even stopped I can barely keep the bike and myself upright.
The wind is stupidly strong in this particular area. A guy in a ute eventually stops alongside me and offers to act as a wind block which worked till I could get out of the roadwork area. I thanked him then continued on my way however I did not get far as the wind was still strong even headon so I pull into a rest stop area and park behind a parked truck! :clap:
After 5-10mins the trucks leaves. :weep:
I settle for parking the bike next to a group of flax bushes half out of the wind. Stayed there for an hour n a half before finally leaving.
The wind was still fierce until later that night :(

[Hawkeye]

The new section near the top of the Takas (Muldoon corner replacement) can be a bit of a t%$t in the wind. Few weeks ago I came around the corner (heading down Hutt side) and hit a head wind which almost stopped me dead. Then the wind hit me from the side and moved the bike straight over the centre line into the oncoming traffic. Literally nothing I could do about it.
Luckly for me there was a gap in the traffic and the truck coming up the hill managed to avoid me. :sweatdrop
And the Katana aint exactly a light bike.

I ride every day into Welly and am well used to the wind. But that partcular section of the Takas is just waiting for a fatality.

[Tigadee]

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..

That there's a classic, that is... :killingme

[merv]

I've always moaned about Wellington's wind and weather in general because I'm Hawkes Bay born, but then why the hell have I lived down here for the greater part of my life?

It does encourage us to take overseas holidays and enjoy some calmer times - just got back from the Canadian Mountains last week and weather so calm the lakes were like mirrors. They'd had more than two months of a dry spell which was great for us, but the weather broke the day we left and now its rain or snow there and winter coming. Maybe Wellington isn't so bad for now after all, but what happened to Spring I've got the heat pump on 'heat' tonight?

[GTRMAN]

Quick trip over the hill..... Yep, blowing like 10,000 bastards

[bsasuper]

Don't know about you guys but the amount of wind lately is getting to be a pain (100kph +)

Best stop riding and sell the bike, as you have NO true biker spirit in you.

[BMWST?]

i dont mind riding in the wind as far as the actual riding.But on this bike/helmet it is so f*&^%$n noisy!

[ellipsis]

...the wind doesn't bother me as much as it used to...especially on still, calm days...

[Bass]

Biggest cause of wind around here is the wife's home-made bread, especially the wholemeal stuff.
Good feed of toast in the morning and I can sit at my computer all afternoon without needing a chair.
Rocket fuel.

As for cross winds, the fairing makes a difference. The DR isn't bothered near as much as the Sprint.

[cheshirecat]

Was caught in a southerly change here in Welly down by Island bay on the sea front. It lifted the magnetic tank bag off the tank which was interesting as it contained 5 kg of potatoes and a bottle of wine AND was shielded by the fairing.

Mind you nought as bad as the old days when it was properly made etc or as bad as the Severn Bridge (which moves) or the bridge in Windwhistle with a dog on the back and all the camping gear.