Sounds about right, although I went to college at Ohio U in Athens where the wind was not an issue. But I remember that it was a major factor riding our old one-speed fat-tire bikes on country roads up in Wood Co. Sometimes you could barely make headway into the wind, and I wonder how we played HS baseball at all in those windy spring conditions.

 

Throwing a curve ball wasn't any problem, was it? Could you do like 90 with the wind to your back? Kind of have to tack back and forth when pedaling into the wind, kind of like how we who lived in the SE had to go up hills to decrease the grade. You'd ride about a quarter mile to get to the top of a road going straight up about 100 yards.

Ohio U campus is one of the most beautiful in the state, as is Kent State where I got my BS in Ed and Tech (double entendre/pun intended, possibly and probably appropriate). My daughter went to OU for a couple years, then to Kent. We got more snow at Kent.

 

I think this thread should be pinned! Just ordered spring for $30 from eBay. Thanks for information here!