Gale force winds in Welly

[Omega1]

Hi Guys,


Just a heads up, the wind here in Wellington is pretty bad so if you
have your bike in town it might pay to check it hasn't been blown over.
I only mention this as I'm down at the Port and two bikes in the carpark have already hit the pavement, ride safe.

Cheers
O1

[pzkpfw]

Just came home over Paekok and Plimmerton. That was fun. Also much tree-blown slippery crap on apex of road (near lookout).


Wheelie bins all over Tawa.

[Str8 Jacket]

Oh goody! I left my broomstick at home today so I will just steal the companies umbrella and use that to fly to the train station tonight.....

[James Deuce]

Meh. Wind.

[FFS]

I rode in this morning; then took it home at lunch and got blown round a fair bit. Brought the cage back.
There are scooters strewn about Waring Taylor street thaat have been blown over. Yep shes pretty windy out there alright! Im gonna take my 2 metre power kite out when I get home for a bit of fun and make most of the conditions! The dogs love to chase it so they will get a good run. :clap:

[jrandom]

ZOMGLOL, it's windy in Wellington.

In other shocking news, a BMW tourer recently made it to the local dairy without requiring a top-end engine rebuild.

[Steam]

Now that I live back in Dunedin, I remember just what terrible weather Wellington has.
It didn't seem bad while I was living there but now my memory has magnified it. Don't miss it at all, frankly!


...I'm down at the Port...
Where do you work? I used to seagull at Port Otago, doing lines and lashing and stuff.

[Nasty]

Ok .. so I took the bike today ... I did not regret it as I got to come home early (hehe) ... left work at 3.30 so that I would not be stuck with traffic in the wind .. good choice ... I ended up going old hutt road then up gorge and off at j'vilel back roads through to porirua then motorway to plimmerton and then home ... lots of fun and yes very windy but the back roads were a great choice for today!!

[awayatc]

The days it doesn't blow its mamaries of in Wellington they have to close the airport...coz they can't see in the fog....:wari:

You want to send your kids on an overseas trip buy em a kite...:2thumbsup
Hang on, hang in and hang tight!:msn-wink:

[Maffoo]

napier was blowey as fuck today as well

[yungatart]

That, Maffoo, is naught but a gentle breeze.
Wait till spring!

[Maffoo]

ass ! i had to take the cover off my gazebo because the wind bent the bars holding it up !

[Steam]

ass ! i had to take the cover off my gazebo because the wind bent the bars holding it up !

Bourgeois horror! Oh the humanity!

[Maffoo]

Bourgeois horror! Oh the humanity!

id rather be bourgeoisie than proletariat :woohoo:

besides, that gazebo cost me nearly .... 80 bux!!

i just cant stand it :laugh:

[twotyred]

Now that I live back in Dunedin, I remember just what terrible weather Wellington has.
It didn't seem bad while I was living there but now my memory has magnified it. Don't miss it at all, frankly!



It's not actually "Wellington wind"... it's the remains of Cyclone Funa making it's way south...

[Steam]

id rather be bourgeoisie than proletariat :woohoo:
besides, that gazebo cost me nearly .... 80 bux!!
i just cant stand it :laugh:
hehe, you're all right.

[Weaver]

I rode home from work (lower hutt to upper hutt) at around seven o'clock this evening. It seemed to have died done quite a bit by then.
The wind was nothing compared to what happened to me this morning to me in the Tiata gorge. As I'm riding through I see this movement out of the corner of my eye and then next thing I know, this fucken great rock/boulder comes bowling down the hill and then across the road only a couple of meters ahead of me. :yawn:

[Drum]

Didn't reckon it was that bad today really. Half asleep drivers - first week back at work - were a lot worse.

[Colapop]

Meh, the whole thing was a storm in a b cup!

[Dino]

It was pretty windy yesterday, my daughter & I came out of Countdown in Johnsonville at about 2pm and got to see a trolley full of bread baskets get blown across the car park at a pretty good rate of knots and smash into a parked Commodore with the owner inside, she was none to pleased. :argue:

Have to say I'm glad it hit a car and not a person as it had built up quite a speed!!!
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[Blue Velvet]

Didn't reckon it was that bad today really.

Yeah well I'm going to show I must be a soft cock and say I struggled to keep the 750 upright on Kent Terrace after leaving Wellington Motorcycles yesterday (new M3's, I like).

At the first set of lights (which decided to turn red when they saw me approaching, love you Murphy), it took every ounce of determination I had to keep the 750 from falling to the left. Just a bad part though, as I didn't have any problems after that.

I actually like riding in the wind. It spices things up a bit :woohoo:

[Drum]

If you kept it upright, then you're not a softcock. :niceone:

[sweetp]

I did the welly - Upper Hutt thing about 5.30 last night and my little baby (FXR150) only got blown into the other lane once. Not bad, most days in wind like that it happens a couple of times.

Today was a pain though - nice steady resistance wind that knocked a good 10km off my average speed.

[Pwalo]

I did the welly - Upper Hutt thing about 5.30 last night and my little baby (FXR150) only got blown into the other lane once. Not bad, most days in wind like that it happens a couple of times.

Today was a pain though - nice steady resistance wind that knocked a good 10km off my average speed.

You should have taken the SV.