It's windy in Wellington - who would have thought

**Pwalo** · 25th July 2008, 08:05

Yes it is! Windy in Wellington, what a surprise. It's pretty rough out there at the moment so riders on smaller bikes and scooters might want to take a bit of care.

Don't usually get pushed around too much on the SV, but it was pretty entertaining this morning coming down the Gorge and long SH2. I hate the headwinds going home!

**sels1** · 25th July 2008, 08:15

Yep sure is - from the South
Mt Kaukau 37knots gusting to 50kt
Kelburn 21kn gusting to 35kt
Wgtn Airport 30kt gusting to 40kt

**Str8 Jacket** · 25th July 2008, 08:34

Well I found today better than yesterday!

Keep ya revs high and relax ya arms and you'll be right!

**Griffin** · 25th July 2008, 08:35

Hell - where will it stop... climate change is wreaking havoc... wind in Wellington??? Next thing you know there will be snow in Christchurch or rain in Auckland... maybe we should all shift to Oz where the weather is stable

**marioc** · 25th July 2008, 08:37

Bloody top speed down by about 30km's into the wind

**Pwalo** · 25th July 2008, 08:49

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Well I found today better than yesterday!

Keep ya revs high and relax ya arms and you'll be right!

Yes indeedy. It's not raining (yet) for a start. And believe me the SV is a lot better than my TS125 that I used to ride when the internet hadn't been invented. Hunker down behind the screen and all is good.

**Pwalo** · 25th July 2008, 08:50

Originally Posted by Griffin

Hell - where will it stop... climate change is wreaking havoc... wind in Wellington??? Next thing you know there will be snow in Christchurch or rain in Auckland... maybe we should all shift to Oz where the weather is stable

Yeah that weather thing is tricky. Who would have thought that climate was changeable??

**MyGSXF:Me** · 25th July 2008, 09:03

Windy.. in Wellington..??!!

Nooooooo!! surely not!!

I used to live in Island Bay many moons ago.. where the washing dried "horizontally"!!!

Tis a lovely calm

day here in Nelson.. just for a change..

although it tis a tad chilly with the frost

ps: Roadsafe taught us when riding in strong winds you need to change down a gear & "power through" the wind.. it works!!

Stay safe you lot up Norf..

looks like you're in for a rough time!

Jen

**sleeqe2000** · 25th July 2008, 09:41

Man - I was shitting myself coming down the Gorge this morning too. My little old CBF only has a dry weight of 140kgs and i was getting thrown all over the shop......usually take the motorway all the way into the city but came off and went down the old Hutt road......

**Patch** · 25th July 2008, 10:04

bah its only wind, there are worse things around.

HTFU softies

**<Rhino>** · 25th July 2008, 10:09

To late now..... but watch the little slips around Pauatanui inlet... I came round one bend this morning, luckily alot slower then normal, and swerved to miss the rocks on the road, truck comming the other way

, so not alot of room, bum puckerd, checked pants at work ....all ok!!

**Badjelly** · 25th July 2008, 10:12

Originally Posted by

...checked pants at work ....all ok!!

That's a relief!

**James Deuce** · 25th July 2008, 10:13

Here we go with the bullshit about it being windy in Wellington ALL the time. Small minded parochial idiots.

Newsflash. Rugby is a minority sport. For homos.

The weather isn't THAT bad, certainly nowhere near as bad as it was in the early 90s.

If you can't cope with it, learn some skills and FFS stop whining about it.

A bad day (or 15 minutes) on a bike is infinitely better than a good day at the office. I'd rather lie under a bike in a ditch full of icy water than have to sit through yet another meeting.

**yod** · 25th July 2008, 10:42

you really need a new job Jim

**sunhuntin** · 25th July 2008, 10:50

was windy as all hell yesterday here as well. went into town, and basically had to parallel park to avoid the wind... sideways like normal would have seen her blown over.
the motorway bridge is finally back to 80k [was 30k for 'seismic strengthning'] so had fun both yesterday morning, and today as well. going 80k, but feeling a lot faster. im sure the cars going the other way think im a nutter.
heading home last night in 3rd cos 4th wouldnt do anything. slowed for a left hand corner, quite a sharp one that i havent mastered yet, and foolishly let me revs drop when changing gear. ended up in 1st and not moving, feet still on the pegs, and getting noticibly blown across the lane to the right. never had that happen before. finally got moving around the corner and had to keep readjusting the line cos i was being blown towards the damn island. never known a 50k corner to take so long to get around, lmfao.

i think shell be living in the shed this weekend!