yourguitarhero – Member
No, it’s actually the opposite. The slower you go the worse the wind affects you. It’s a vectors thing, I remember it from motorbiking.
Imagine you are moving ahead at 5 m/s and the wind is from the side at 1 m/s.
In 1 second you have moved forward 5 metres and to the side by 1 metre. Your angle of deflection is 11.3 degrees
But if you’d slowed down to 3 m/s because of the wind, you are still blown 1 metre to the side in that second, but have only traveled forward 3 metres. Your angle of deflection is now 18.4 degrees Not sure that’s quite as simple as you portray it TBH, but regardless, what I was getting at is the exaggerated perception of the effect rather than the actual deflection. IME you feel more exposed when you’re travelling fast and lose control than when you’re slow, even if the lateral shift was the same (unless you’re mtbing slowly at the edge of a cliff or on a really difficult bit)
