This may seem like a simple question with an obvious answer, but I still needed to ask. When I was breaking in my engine I was going 50mph for a few weeks and was getting beaten up by the wind. After my first service I began going up to 65mph or so and it seemed like the wind was lesser. Maybe it was me just enjoying my trips more since I could relax and not watch the tach but I think it's more than that. I thought ofthis question today when traveling slower due to some mysterious fluid I ran over (didn't want tochallenge my tire's gription). I was going roughly 50-55 and even though the wind was no more than 15mph and steady it seemed horrible, worse than last week going 65.
Is it just my perception or is there something to this?

 

It's amazing what we can get used to. Didn't you put one of those Laminar Lips on your bike?
When I first got my Harley, I couldn't believe the wind at 50mph. "How can guys ride for hundreds of miles like that?"
But before long I was one of those guys and was eventually finishing Babybutts (1000 miles in <24 hours.)
Peace!
-CCinC

 

Yeah, the Laminar Lip is great. It is a great improvement for head on wind and turbulance. Side force wind, from trucks and from the lack of a barrier of trees or whatever though is still an issue. I wascurious if anyone else had noticed it or if I am just the 1 out of 4 people.
It seemed like the felt effect of the wind coming from the front of trucks as they passwas less at higher speed.

 

you pass by the pressure wave of oncoming traffic faster combined with the faster you are going the more inertia the wheels generate providing the bike with the gyro effect of stabilizing it automaticly. same reason its harder to balance at slow speeds.

 

personally i hate tractor trailors..... it sucks me too it then all of a sudden pushes me away. Could be very dangerous staying beside one of these.

 

Going through underpasses is tricky too. No wind and then wind, just like that.

 

no worse than the bridge i cross every day, when its windy i can get a strong crosswind from the left and then suddenly get one from the right. key always seems to be for me to stay put and let the bike adjust itself because it wants to go straight.