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Old 10-25-13 | 08:27 AM
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carpediemracing
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Originally Posted by Dan333SP
CDR, you rode your bike into and out of a hurricane, including gusting 80mph tailwinds? Weren't you worried about flying debris? Not that it wasn't fun, but that seems pretty dangerous...
Honestly I didn't think about any debris. The last time I'd been near a hurricane at relatively high wind speeds was at school and we were all outside goofing off, "sledding" down a hill on dining hall trays, stuff like that. So with the hurricane I figured it'd be safer than going out the next day when wind speeds were supposed to peak at over 100 mph. It ends up that the wind never got really bad, not much worse than what we rode through, although news teams managed to find a small ship that got washed up onto a beach. Overall it was a dud, fortunately for the area.

While we rode we never saw anything that raised any red flags. It was just really windy and there was a lot of mist /light rain / spray.

Also, I didn't mention it but I was on aero wheels. We were in town for a crit and so I only had my race wheels. At the time I used dual TriSpokes, aka HED3s, so I rode in the hurricane on those wheels. My teammate had Mavic Cosmic Carbones, the first gen of that wheel, so we were both on stupid wheels for the conditions. His then gf (and now wife) was on the ride as well although she had just regular box section clinchers.
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