Comments on: Traffic Filtering M48 Severn Bridge http://www.1stclassrider.co.uk/traffic-filtering-m48-severn-bridge Learn to Ride with Police Class 1 Riders Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Craig Morgan http://www.1stclassrider.co.uk/traffic-filtering-m48-severn-bridge/comment-page-1#comment-239 Craig Morgan Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:30:04 +0000 http://www.1stclassrider.co.uk/?p=384#comment-239 "The Second Severn Crossing was designed with draught excluders built in, so is not affected by the gusts in the same way as the original bridge." Yeah, right … I still do that route on a very regular basis and its not unusual to come across the bridge at nearly 30deg and "sailing into the wind", just watch out for the two major uprights, wind drops so sharply there that you get launched a lane sideways when in their lea. ;-) Craig Ps. Only place I've ridden that was serious about wind buffering is the German autobahns … some of the stretches outside Munich (still unrestricted!) are well enough protected that you can't tell there is a wind when travelling by car/bike until you get out and get blown over at a stop! “The Second Severn Crossing was designed with draught excluders built in, so is not affected by the gusts in the same way as the original bridge.”

Yeah, right … I still do that route on a very regular basis and its not unusual to come across the bridge at nearly 30deg and “sailing into the wind”, just watch out for the two major uprights, wind drops so sharply there that you get launched a lane sideways when in their lea.

;-)

Craig

Ps. Only place I’ve ridden that was serious about wind buffering is the German autobahns … some of the stretches outside Munich (still unrestricted!) are well enough protected that you can’t tell there is a wind when travelling by car/bike until you get out and get blown over at a stop!

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