Absolutely my experience.

incorrect; anecdote=data, plural of anecdote is 'proof'

That's not even enough to run 1 Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button

Most of my rides are in cross/quartering winds that started out as a headwind. I am going generally south or north and the wind is west to east. I know i will not get any help on the return trip. The only thing i can hope for is the the winds die down some what. I look at the flags and usually its blowing hard across. Today it was supposed to be windy but it was mostly calm with breezes 5 to 10mph. Last five miles wind kicked up to 15 to 20 headwind. Did 60 miles.

Pointlessly enough I experienced a tail wind almost the entire time doing loops this morning on Fiesta Island.

No , sometimes it does...like sunday this week it actually shifted 180 for the ride back. Frikkin unbelievable but i try and console myself by saying i don't have hills out here, so pretend the wind is my hill.

nah, anecdote = datum (singular), the plural is date

+7

Most of the time I notice the wind dies or switches near sundown.

its not the part about going slow that gets me, its not getting a break. its almost as bad as a trainer.

I know I've been in the 99% more times than I want. When riding to and from the house the route I usually take is a half mile long straight street that in reality has a very slight incline on my return (barely visible). But after a long ride, I know that road is actually a 90% incline with headwinds at about 50 mph. :-)

I break wind.

Don't you love cresting a big hill, only to have to downshift when the wind hits you head on?

I watch the 5-9mph south by south east winds blow past my window at work every day until about 4:30, then it shifts to 20 mph from the north west, just in time for the ride home, headed north and west.

If I move to the southeast of my office I may be responsible for local climate change.

No such thing as tailwind. There is headwind or you are having a really great day. (Mercx, or words to that effect)

That is mentally very defeating-having to shift to an easier gear going downhill.

i definitely agree. i think it's even more than that, though, because the same is true of hills, but i'd rather ride up a hill than into a headwind.

I am glad to hear that all of you have the same issues with wind. I bought my first road bike 2 weeks ago and we have had nothing but rain and heavy winds. Past two days 18 - 20 mph winds. I was starting to think it was all my fault.

Now we know why it's been so windy the past couple of weeks!

That's why I switched to powerboats.

ftfy

I'm no fan of the wind and after two months of pretty much daily 20-30mph wind around here it's enough already. But I'd still rather ride in the wind (to a point) than on the trainer.

That was a trend with me for a while, then I made my peace with it. You can't fight nature by being mad at it.

On a serious note I read somewhere that the negative effects of a headwind are actually almost the same for a crosswind. There is only a narrow 30 degree range centered directly behind you in which you get any benefit from the wind. Outside that 30 degree range the wind starts to be a hindrance. Maybe that's why it feels like the tailwind doesn't happen as often as the headwind.

I love being in shape and going 15 mph into thick wind without getting cooked.

thats when you turn your torso to get more wind into your back.

+1. Wind and hills are easier if you like them.:)

Being up front with a strong headwind is fine as long as its not a hammerfest. Otherwise, short pull and try to position behind the "big guy". Being up front with a strong tailwind is the shizzzz.

any time I start feeling strong on the bike, I think "oh -- tailwind." Doesn't happen very often.

Like others, I think the red slice in the second chart is a little too large.

I have similar results for uphill as opposed to down hill

I honestly believe that M. C. Ecsher laid out my training loops!