Mt. Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb....The Mountain Wins...
08-19-07, 05:19 PM
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Mt. Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb....The Mountain Wins...
All season building toward the big event...
All that training...
Anticipation...
And The Mountain says NO!!!
"Horizontal sleet, rime ice, 87-mph gusts of wind and freezing temperatures forced the cancellation of this year's Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb on Saturday."
https://www.velonews.com/race/dom/articles/13124.0.html
Time to start planning for next year...
All that training...
Anticipation...
And The Mountain says NO!!!
"Horizontal sleet, rime ice, 87-mph gusts of wind and freezing temperatures forced the cancellation of this year's Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb on Saturday."
https://www.velonews.com/race/dom/articles/13124.0.html
Time to start planning for next year...
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08-20-07, 09:08 AM
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Here are the summit conditions for later that afternoon...
At start time it looks like there were 50 mph winds with a temperature of 33 degree at the top...
At start time it looks like there were 50 mph winds with a temperature of 33 degree at the top...
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08-20-07, 09:36 AM
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Yes, the Prezzies are not to be trifled with, weather wise. I got caught in a white-out once on the way down Madison, in the the first week of September. Made it down OK, but it was sketchy for a bit.
08-20-07, 10:05 AM
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I've never been there, but from what I understand, the top has some of the worst weather in the country. Mt. Evans in Colorado sports a lot of snow and wind storms all summer (near the summit).
08-20-07, 10:09 AM
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"During a wild April storm in 1934, a wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 kilometers per hour) pushed across the summit of Mount Washington. This wind speed still stands as the all-time [world] surface wind speed record. Below are excerpts from then-observer Alex McKenzie's book The Way It Was which accounts in detail the experience of documenting and living to tell the tale of a 231 mph wind."
https://www.mountwashington.org/about...recordwind.php
08-20-07, 11:13 AM
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I am sure it was howling up there. We rode on Saturday and the wind at 200 vertical feet was ripping from the North along the countryside. It was quite a painful experience -- slow going and an extra gear or two necessary. I am sure riding up the mountain would have been a miserable experience!
08-20-07, 12:52 PM
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I really don't see the problem. 70 mph wind; It's not like you were going to ride deep dish wheels for a hill climb.
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08-20-07, 12:59 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
Yeah, I've ridden in 65mph gusts in Boulder in the spring. It's not so bad. Well, it kind of is.
08-20-07, 01:02 PM
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I have hiked up Mt Washington before but never rode it - sounds like fun though. I am assuming you don't want to ride back down if you don't want to melt you brakes. 
08-20-07, 01:28 PM
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With 70 mph gusts your torso is enough of a ''deep dish' sail to be a problem. Popped a wheelie about three quarters up the mountain when a gust caught me, and that year's women's winner got blown of her bike...
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08-20-07, 02:16 PM
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Let's see. According to the velonews.com report that I saw, there was the wind issue, sleet coming in horizontally, and zero visibility. If you can ride up that road in those conditions, then more power to you. There's always a couple people who get blown over by the wind at the top; Geneviève Jeanson got knocked over one year trying to get around the last turn.
