Gomersal road yesterday, so windy
The wind can be a great friend or a nasty foe. Riding over for the Barossa group ride yesterday morning, I had a nice 20 to 25kmh tail wind which helped nicely. One section which is a gradual uphill of 3% gradient for about 1.5 km's, I could average about 22kmh on the climb but a few hours later on the return leg, only 19kmh while going down the hill. By then it was a 37kmh head wind with 46kmh gusts. Damn that wind. Like I said, friend and foe!
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Battye on -
Wow! At least you didn't have that headwind on the uphill leg!
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Permalink Reply by Ben Del Fabbro on -
4 sure. The wind out in this neck of the woods sometimes decides to swing 180 degrees and if your riding one direction into it and then u turn around as does the wind, I keep telling myself it's good resistance training in between curses.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew K on -
It is generally much easier to have the tailwind going uphill than downhill.
There is actually a reasonable amount of material in scientific journals about the effects of wind on cycling performance.
Sidewinds suck too.http://iopscience.iop.org/0143-0807/27/1/007
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