Little late to the thread but I feel your pain. If anyone lives in Portland and has ridden the bike path on Marine Drive then that's all I have to say. For a little more clarification for those that don't live here, well the winds coming out the Gorge can be intense. On a good day it'll be calm with a slight feel good breeze, other times you could be riding into 25-50 mph winds, just depends. I actually stopped taking that way to work and took other surface streets that were ten minutes out of the way just so I wouldn't have to ride in it.