http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Headwind/Tailwind conspiracy against me en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:25 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8353 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:42:56 +0000 Stepdoh 8353@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep, don't anger the weather goblins. </p> <p>I had a [expletive deleted]-ing huge headwind home and my seatbolt snapped.</p> <p>Think that was a message. 8-/ </p> <p>Going for a wee lie down. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8345 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:44:45 +0000 Kim 8345@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't upset the Evil weather goblins ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8344 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:36:49 +0000 Kirst 8344@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Evil weather goblins? Oh noes! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8339 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:11:03 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 8339@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Because they're evil Kirst. Evil. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8337 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:07:07 +0000 Stepdoh 8337@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, I'm heading back home now... that should catch them on the hop! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8330 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:55:20 +0000 Kirst 8330@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If the weather goblins can ensure constant headwind for all cyclists in all directions, why can't they ensure constant tailwinds for all cyclists in all directions? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8313 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:36:47 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 8313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nope, I'm with stepdoh on this, and I commute in the same directions. Certainly there were a few weeks when it seemed to be constantly headwindy, changing about during the day.</p> <p>I think I can count the number of commuting days on one hand this year that have been without a headwind in at least one direction. Can we have some settled non-windy days please? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8294 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:38:48 +0000 Smudge 8294@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well when it rains tomorrow evening it's all my fault and I accept complete responsibility :-/<br /> I'm taking the MTB to work tomorrow so I can recce a route for the Guides next week, so having no proper mudguards and committing myself to a little gentle off roading virtually guarantees the weather gods a chance to point and laugh!<br /> Sorry....! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8291 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:59:28 +0000 gembo 8291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Inchcolm is supposed to mean Columba's Isle (tho not felt he ever visited) so if you pray to Columba you might find the wind turns in your favour (other than that, Mary Poppins?)</p> <p>I like it blowing from east as the downhill bit of my commute cancels out the breeze and the uphill bit blows me home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8264 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:47:13 +0000 steveo 8264@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've come to the conclusion the wind is influenced/controlled by the Daily Mail and its readers in an attempt to make any one who doesn't drive do so. How ever if you come across a particularly strong wind it must be the fault of the [insert out group] in front or behind, the Daily Wail is deliberately trying to Impede/send home/kill [delete as appropriate].</p> <p>At least that's the only reasonable explanation for a stiff wind in both directions today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8261 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:51:34 +0000 Min 8261@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm. I have been north, south, east and west today and the wind seems to have been where it should although rather stiffer than I would like. </p> <p>Just wear a tinfoil hat whilst riding and you'll be fine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8253 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:41:43 +0000 Kirst 8253@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I also seem to have a constant headwind just now, and I go east in the morning and west at night. And all directions during the day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8238 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:10:57 +0000 chdot 8238@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"paranormal phenomena"</p> <p>oops thought you said paranoidal </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8236 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:08:11 +0000 Arellcat 8236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's not a conspiracy at all. Unusual, nay, <em>paranormal</em> phenomena such as natural double ramped hills and bidirectional opposing headwinds are consistently encountered in the real world, and Stepdoh is merely describing one facet of Newton's 4th law which is linked inextricably with cyclo-mathematics. Conventional relativistic bicycle mechanics is considered under Newton's 1st, 2nd and 3rd laws.</p> <p>Cyclo-mathematics also extends to motorist behaviour, such as the instance in which the paths of an approaching vehicle and a following vehicle will invariably automatically intersect at the point of cycling, regardless of initial trajectory and speed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8232 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:04:27 +0000 Kim 8232@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It is all a conspiracy ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=923#post-8230 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:28:38 +0000 Stepdoh 8230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Seem to have a constant headwind at the moment, I go out west in the morning, come back east and the wind seems to magically turn to meet my face in the middle of the day. </p> <p>Does that mean all you folk going in East out West have an almost constantly fun cycle? Or has West Lothian Council bribed the wind to help increase it's modal share? </p>