Has anyone actually been blown off their bike?

[rainman]

The trouble with this theory is when you're riding fast the wind is pretty consistent and always coming from the front.

I thought you rode a Volty?

I reckon the superior design of the Volty gives me an advantage over the rest of you lot with your fancy fairings and screens. The wind just whistles right through my little naked bike with her spoked wheels.

Although there is the "chest-full-of-wind" phenomenon at high speed. I'm sure I'll eventually be able to scratch my feet without bending over.

All your Volty needs is a couple of extra kgs and you too will be able to ride in (almost) any conditions... my 220-ish kg bike occasionally warbles about from side to side in extreme wind, but not to the point where I ever think I will be blown over. Low c.o.g., y'see.

Riding home the other night was fun though - went through a short patch of pea-size hail, the arse was swinging all over the place!

[Steam]

I have been blown off my bike.

When I was in Taiwan I went for a ride in a hurricane. A proper, full-on hurricane.

I'd never been in a hurricane before and as I had the day off since work was closed along with all other shops in the city due to high winds, I decided to try to find the eye of the storm, which was supposed to be passing about 20 km north of where i lived.
I only went about 1 or 2 kilometres before being blown off the bike into a rice-paddy (I was only going 20 kph, so it was more hilarious than dangerous).

But on the way back I saw whole sheets of deadly jagged roofing iron flying across the road without touching the tarmac, cars crushed by falling trees and power poles, and trees down everywhere.
It was foolish but I was a foreigner in an interesting country and I'd never seen a hurricane except on TV.

A reminder for next time, Hurricanes = Dangerous.

[Swoop]

Once more The Powers That Be are warning us to leave our motorbikes at home in the crazy weather.

Huh? What crazy weather? It is just Mother Nature doing what she does.

It's hard to lane split across the bridge in the wind....

I find the cages are quite useful windbreaks whilst filtering!

[Hinny]

I wondered whether it was possible for the wind to blow a car off the road. No, surely not, I reassured myself. But last year I believe a car got blown off the road somewhere in N Canterbury and ended up in a field-- I saw a news photo.

East of Avoca in the Canterbury High country a Train got blown off a bridge over the Broken River.

[Hinny]

Ive got nothing clean to say so ill just be quiet

Where's the fun in that?

[Pedrostt500]

Ive had trouble at the top of the Rimutaka hill the bike was picked up and throwen accross the lane by the wind, me and my K100rt arnt no light weights.

[MaxCannon]

I used to get blown all over the show on the GN
Now on a much heavier bike I barely notice the wind

Even some of the strong guts we have lately haven't sent me off course like they used to.

[Hitcher]

East of Avoca in the Canterbury High country a Train got blown off a bridge over the Broken River.

Was it broken before the train fell on it?

[GIXser]

Oh hangon...I thought you said blown off on yer bike!

been there done that..... oh affman "where art thou"

[klingon]

Windy days wind me up summat chronic, and make me ride faster ...

Yeah I find that too... I become rather excitable on windy days and I tend to go out for a ride even if I have nowhere in particular to go. I'm often whooping and yodelling inside my helmet when it's really windy.

Just as well nobody can hear me (I think).

[howdamnhard]

Yes I´m sure people have been blown off.More of a problem when going slowly or stopped(no gyroscopic effect from wheels keeping you upright).The wind was probably from in behind you and thats why you didn´t notice it klingon.

[cs363]

I had a wind assisted get off at the old Taupo track many moons ago, it was on the hairpin on a 250 proddy bike. Pretty well just a step off, pick it back up and go affair, no doubt assisted by the slower speed and lean angle at the apex of the turn along with a 16" front wheel. the wind basically just took the front wheel out from under me.

Though I've never seen or heard of anyone getting blown off their bike under normal circumstances I would imagine its quite conceivable given that big trucks can get blown over by high winds.

[Hinny]

been almost sucked under trucks when thee wind has grabbed me .. Really unpleasant.

Been blown on a bus .. Really pleasant.

[ital916]

I don't have problems on straights, easy enough to loosen up and compensate, it's the corners that get me in high winds. High wind + a sharp handling, light 250 cc bike + rain (in he dry it's alright) = me going very carefully at ten below the posted speed limit. haha

[cruza]

Hah a bad one a few years ago on my ducati heading to the w/coast from chch, down off porters pass and on the gas... and round the sweeping lake lyndon corner at the bottom , and got hit by huge wind sweeping across the lake, blown right across the highway , and left the road onto openish shingle area still doing 90-100km, hell ride stayed upright to just over joggling speed , then flopped on the side. got away with couple small scatches on fairing. lake valley must be like a wind tunnel in certain conditions, as other people have told me experiences of huge wind gusts just after exiting the corner.