+1

If your riding for pleasure and pleasure alone, don't feel the need to ride in the wind. On the other hand, if you ride competitive events or even riding large organized rides (gran fondo rides), riding on windy days is required training.

I like to ride gravel grinders; for example, the 2016 Almanzo 100 had 20 mph winds all day, and out in the middle of farm fields, there's no shelter, so you need to know how to ride in the wind.

I target days like today to ride for training. Minneapolis has winds at 20-30 mph and gusts over 40 mph (BTW - temps are 25F to 30F). This give me the chance to work on bike-handling in the cross winds and getting aero into the head winds. Today's 27-mile ride had the wind at my back to start, but the last 13 miles were straight into this wind. Today's ride is filed under: character-building.

And I feel kinda wimpy watching the Paris-Nice this week, the first two stages have been BRUTAL conditions.