Originally Posted by
Hypno Toad
You may need to re-calibrate your Improbability Meter, it seems faulty. I'm not saying some people won't lie about this kinda sh.t, but I'm just not *that* person. To help you re-calibrate, I'll put the data behind what I posted.
Here's the
event page for the Westside Dirty Benjamin - see the posts about the 2014 ride, check the results page for Chris Nelson (Hypno Toad's alias for bike event). Here is a link to information about the
windstorm on the June 14, 2014 and historical weather data for this date on
Weather Underground (scroll to the chart at the bottom of the page). And for completeness, my
Strava data from the ride.
This reminds me of the people who don't think it *possible* to bike with exposed skin in sub-zero weather cause you'll get frostbite and die (exaggeration). I had to go through this exact exercise to tell them, yes, some people can ride with exposed skin and be nice and warm in extreme cold.
I think what virtually everyone in this thread-- and you quite specifically-- need to recognize is this:
gusts ≠ wind speed
The link you provided showed a day with average wind speeds of 14mph. It's blowing harder than that where I am as I type this. The max wind speed for any date should not be conflated with the recorded
average wind speed. And no, you didn't ride in gusts of 60mph. That day had a single recorded gust, at the airport, of 59mph.
So I continue to stand by everything I said in my initial post. Average wind speed today, 12mph. Gusts to 25mph, max gust likely in the low-30s. Or in BF nomenclature, WINDS 30MPH GUSTS TO OVER 50MPH!