I like riding in the wind, one of my strong points. I consider the wind as "THE GREAT EQUALIZER".

I remember doing an organized century on a tandem with my wife. We have a decent steel tandem and were doing well. When along comes a couple on a really super expensive tandem. Had no idea we were racing but they passed us. I'm a master pacer so we kept our pace and caught them again, not trying. They had to pass us again, OK. A few times then They decided to chat with us. They were telling us how expensive their tandem was, how much the wheels cost, then said we should save our money and upgrade our (then $2500) tandem to a top of the line tandem like theirs so we could go faster.

Then 50 miles into the ride we hit a big wind. The winds were blowing about 45 and there was no cover or hiding from it in a desert area. We kept pushing on then about 20 miles later it cleared up.

We finished the century then when we got back to town, we ran into the couple at the post ride BBQ. I lost sight of them on the ride so I asked, "how did you guys do?".

Uhh we dropped out of the ride because the wind got too tough!

Me hide from a wind? Never, it builds character!