Originally Posted by
markhr
Given that it never really snows properly in the UK anymore is wind and windchill the biggest hazard up there when cycling? That is, the super-uber-huge gale force warnings that we hear about in the national weather down "sarf".
Salt spray over the whole islands in storms - rusts all the little nooks in crannies!
(that's why there are far more red vans than white vans in Shetland - the rust doesn't show so much)
Nothing like a force-eight tailwind!
