Cycling on windy days

Really windy now in Cambridgeshire+no hills.

Aero position is the only way I get through it and think of all the great training you will get!

Best thing to do: accept the British weather is rubbish, no more moaning and get on enjoying the riding and no malaria.

I've noticed that it always seems to blow harder when it's my turn to take the front in a group. Several mates have confirmed this suspicion. Some sort of conspiracy?

I'm sure it's been a windy year in general

I actually got blown off my bike for the first time ever this year! Cycling home from work on a particularly exposed stretch of road between Eastbourne and Seaford I decided it might be safer to cycle on the grass verge rather than the road as I have hybrid tyres on.
I tried to get up onto the verge at a point where there was a drop down to get onto the grass and at the exact moment I made the jump.. GUST! FACK!

I truly hate Zeno's paradox. IT'S NOT A PARADOX. WTF MAKES IT PARADOXICAL?
Oh look, you never arrive.

0f course you never arrive (Imagine I'm John Cleese at this point), you've set the conditions of the whole thing such that you'll never arrive.

Nnnnnnnnnn-waaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Ooooh, look at me - motion is impossible.

and relax

I'm sorry, there's supposed to be some cycling content? Er, don't forget to take the lockring out of the Tracon hub if you're truing your R-SYS wheel. There you go.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets... and it's always in your face.
- Jack Nicklaus

Lose the spacers and invert your stem if its pointing up. Stick it in the big ring and once you pass 30mph, you'll be more concerned with air resistance and drag so the wind is irrelevant.***wakes up***

I always think a strong wind is like an extra 2% on a gradient.

So what if you had two cyclists cycling in opposite directions along the same road. Do they both have headwinds?

That's, like, Zeno's paradox. Wow. Heavy stuff.

Is it getting more windy in this country. Cycling in NE england, it seems to be windy every day.

Surely it's related to the famous Greg Lemond quote along the lines of cycling "never getting any easier; you just get faster."

Put another way, if you're always going as fast as you can you are quite literally riding into an ever-increasing headwind as air resistance increases on that logarithmic scale thingie.

The trick is to slow down. I will try to convince myself of this as I'm struggling in this morning.

I was asking myself the same question only the other day 'Why is it, i do a circular route but am always riding into wind...?'

Wind comes directly down from above and blows in all directions at once. I thought everyone knew that.

ah but when the wind is behind you you get to the lights too soon and you have to stop… obviously not everyone actually does. Not sure what happens to them

It would also need to take into account the related phenomenon that when you are cycling with a tailwind the lights are always red, but when you've got a headwind they are always green… just, if you sprint for 'em and you always do.

Funnily enough I noticed that only today. Again