Originally Posted by
spelger
i would rather never have a head wind, always no wind or a tail wind. i have never encountered a case where i was glad there was a head wind. in my experience rarely is the head wind direct toward me, it is always moving toward with a left right bias. same with the tail wind. so even if i am going as fast as a tail wind only occasionally is there a net zero effect. more often than not there is some lateral component to the wind either due to the wind or the road i am on.
TBH, until last Saturday, this would have been my position. It was just the right speed to not have a significant effect on my climbing speed, and I think it was just about 91 degrees. I've been riding for 50+ years and never felt that relief from a headwind before, which makes me think there's a really specific range of conditions where this might occur.
Also, people vary so much in how they sweat and in their body mass that these conditions might be different from person to person.