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Old 10-27-2010, 12:46 PM   #208 (permalink)
SoobieOut
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I remember driving across Wyoming in a U-Haul with wicked side winds for 100 miles. Had to keep the steering wheel half a turn into the wind. Makes for stressful, white knuckled driving. Signs warned that no empty loaded trucks were allowed on the interstate.

From a different angle regarding side winds. Back in my competative cycling days. We used to ride in a paceline. In sidewinds it was called " – The art of the echelon". Where one rider would be diagonal to the other.

Shame our cars will not reconfigure the body panels based on wind direction.
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