http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Windiest road in Edinburgh? en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:57:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-225127 Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:51:59 +0000 Claire 225127@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember cycling to Heriot Watt along Broomhouse Drive on a super windy day and being stopped in my tracks by its force. Absolutely brutal. </p> <p>I'd give Dalry Road a runner up prize. When I used to kick about there my nickname for it was the Wind Tunnel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224983 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:41:10 +0000 AKen 224983@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>+ 3 for Broomhouse. It has all the appeal of cycling in some brutalist Soviet housing scheme on the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224978 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:18:42 +0000 I were right about that saddle 224978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gibbo</p> <p>That's <a href="https://canmore.org.uk/site/240241/edinburgh-holyrood-park-windy-gowl">Windy Gowl.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224977 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:55:10 +0000 threefromleith 224977@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>+2 for Broomhouse! (and I'd like to extend the length of it as the 'windiest road' all the way up Bankhead to Ed Park Station &amp; Tram Stop) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224961 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:16:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 224961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>+1 for Broomhouse.</p> <p>Nearly got blown into a parked car on Dublin Street yesterday because I was going so slowly uphill as I passed a sidestreet wind-funnel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224949 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:03:55 +0000 gibbo 224949@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Duddingston Low Road. No matter which direction the wind is blowing in the rest of the city, it's always in your face if you're cycling up from Duddingston.</p> <p>It's so windy that there are downhill sections of that road where I can't even get up to 10mph. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224932 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:13:40 +0000 kaputnik 224932@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Broomhouse Drive. Not only is it angled along the prevailing wind, but there's basically nothing to act as a wind break along the entire length; the winds whistling off the blasted steppes of West Lothian have nothing to stop them on their route east. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224931 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:03:23 +0000 steveo 224931@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fountain Bridge, before they started rebuilding, when you turn the corner from Gardners Cresent, by the time you got rolling the wind would try to blow you all directions. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224930 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:01:47 +0000 gembo 224930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is a side street at the top of kingsknowe onto the Lanark road that the wind howls down blowing the unsuspecting cyclist from slow lane to fast lane. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224929 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:54:45 +0000 mercury1and2 224929@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I would agree -cross wind in McDonald rd is very bad. Although not a road as such cramond by silverknowes esplanade when cycling from the cramond tower gets me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16617#post-224927 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:22:22 +0000 resurf 224927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The blustery weather today reminded me that McDonald Road could take some beating in a "windiest road in Edinburgh" contest - any other contenders out there?</p> <p>I have, obviously, no scientific data of any sorts... </p>