London's wind tunnels and canyons

This building on City Road has always generated unwelcome sidewinds:

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.53137,-0.103732&spn=0.001635,0.003449&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.5313,-0.103466&panoid=vJ9d0nss9o93L4xw6pr8lg&cbp=12,53.48,,0,-13.16

You can ride both north- and southwards at the same time?

On the tube to go to Kings Cross from Euston you can either take the Victoria Line Northbound or the Northern Line southbound. In London we do not feel the need to be constrained by the trivialities to topology.

No fart jokes yet?

Also, top of Roker Lane there's a row of terraces - as you pass them, the wind comes off the cabbage fields like a bastard.
I almost got blown under a tractor once.

Make of that last sentence what you will.

Farmer's daughters, huh?

No fart jokes yet?

There was one in post #4.

Too vague. Doesn't count.

The archway. Under centre point ..

Beware!

http://www.thelondoncycleworkshop.co.uk/index.php/gallery/

Central Street just off City Road has 1 point where even on a still day the headwind will nearly make you stop in your tracks.

If you don't have the right pedal-fu, that is.

And how can we forget Rik?

https://www.lfgss.com/post909029.html

That Old St area seem to suffer quite badly from wind.

On Bath St there is a tall building that is open at ground level with a series of arches. The height of the building channels the air down (wind always blows slightly downwards anyway) and blasts it in a stream out across the road. Caused me a couple of big wobbles.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.526502,-0.091111&spn=0.000635,0.001206&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.526592,-0.091139&panoid=_7UCp2K3cmlKwbcc2THySw&cbp=12,84.59,,0,6.21

Is that Richmond Park?

Something smaller.

Yes, it's the map from the planning proposal to build a moat to stop the deer from escaping.

This thread is uncovering corners of London that I never knew existed.

Farmer's daughters, huh?

No, farmer's cow.

They go mad for honey, if you know what to do with it.

It was going ace until the farmer turned up, fucking cock- blocking yokel.

He didn't take kind to me fucking about under his Massey Ferguson 135 with my knob out, I can tell you.

This thread is uncovering corners of London that I never knew existed.

Yes. Like Roker Lane in Pudsey.

This coming Sunday gusts up to 51mph early morning NE direction. I might catch the tailwind and ride out to Essex, as the wind calms after midday, so I can ride back without headwind. Clever, eh!?

catch train back if youve got perfect tail wind!

Canyons in the City now becoming part of urban planning:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/20/city-of-london-tightens-rules-on-skyscrapers-over-wind-tunnel-fears-cyclist-pedetrians

Not that it'll stop anyone from chucking up any old skyscraper they want, but they'll have to do a little report first.

240 Blackfriars Road has a ground floor overhang that seems to have been shaped to reflect the prevailing (SW) winds back at the cycle lane on the other side of the road. Northbound is a stopper on a windy day. Southbound is a nice boost after the traffic lights.