Special Edition Breakout Beasts?

[Survivor11]

Well, most commercial bikes have a top speed of 16 mph, and that's with a rider in peak condition. Wind, however is an opposing force, and even at 20 MPH, it can blow cars and trucks off course, and Semi-trucks have a risk of toppling over if the wind is strong enough. 50 MPH is very high, and dangerous to drive in for most vehicles.

I think you're overestimating wind strength.

50mph averages to 90km/h which is wind strength in a common storm.

Actually, the average wind speed for a thunder storm is around 32 kilometers per hour, or 20 miles per hour. If a thunderstorm advances to "severe", the winds can get up to 50 kilometers per hour, or 31 miles per hour. And its still not recommended to travel via bike, car, or truck in this kind of weather if you have a choice.

50 is still significantly higher than a severe thunderstorm. Its actually within range of a small tornado, and those can pick up and toss cars around with little effort. According to the F-Scale ranges:
F0: 40 to 72 mph.
F1: 73 to 112 mph.
F2: 113 to 157 mph.
F3: 158 to 206 mph.
F4: 207 to 260 mph.
F5: 261 to 318 mph.
F6: 319 to 379 mph.

We get a good share of tornadoes out here, rarely do we see any F5 or the unicorn F6. And I highly doublt you would ride your bike very well in that kind of wind.
Luckilly, we are a landlocked state, and don't have to worry about hurricanes and typhoons which have a maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or faster. :P

I'm not from the US though.

We get strong wind currents.

And hurricanes are in the 100s of km/h speeds and tornadoes are even stronger so this is strange.

We get (officially) recorded speeds of 80-90km/h (~50mph) in winter on just regular windy days.

So this is really strange.
But it's an interesting debate.
It's important to note that winds that fast only become tornadoes if the required air pockets are present.
Otherwise, in contrast to the speed a moving car goes at, it does nothing.
And although they are annoying to travel through, notably due to the effort and balance required to not fall over, they are entirely navigable.
Also, I'm pretty sure F0 tornadoes can't pick up cars. Maybe small objects but not cars.
I say this because we have had relatively weak tornado columns before in my area, but all they did was rattle your windows, throw outdoor plastic chairs around, hurl up a ton of leaves in the air and then leave, usually everything stays in your backyard, although the occasional ball from the neighbours will stay.
And for the record, bikes with a rider in peak condition go faster than 16mph.
Just in the tour de France they can go upwards of 25mph.

[Rogue-Elite]

If it can blow down trees im out

[Survivor11]

Interestingly, there have been a few trees blown down here and there that I forgot to mention.
But those are small, young trees (only a few years of age) most of the time.
It's rare but my grandfather's backyard tree that was a dozen years old did get blown down that one time we had a really bad storm that was in the 100 km/h speeds.
But really, high speed winds aren't unusual.
You need a variety of conditions for them to really become dangerous.

[Roebuck]

Blizzard, understandable.

50mph winds?
I have to bike with winds going just as fast opposing me, to get from point A to B (don't have a drivers license yet, am getting one soon).
So in a car, they're not really an issue.

But that blizzard I can understand.

Well, most commercial bikes have a top speed of 16 mph, and that's with a rider in peak condition. Wind, however is an opposing force, and even at 20 MPH, it can blow cars and trucks off course, and Semi-trucks have a risk of toppling over if the wind is strong enough. 50 MPH is very high, and dangerous to drive in for most vehicles.

I think you're overestimating wind strength.

50mph averages to 90km/h which is wind strength in a common storm.

There's a mountain close to me with record breaking wind (over 200 Mph)

[Survivor11]

Well, most commercial bikes have a top speed of 16 mph, and that's with a rider in peak condition. Wind, however is an opposing force, and even at 20 MPH, it can blow cars and trucks off course, and Semi-trucks have a risk of toppling over if the wind is strong enough. 50 MPH is very high, and dangerous to drive in for most vehicles.

I think you're overestimating wind strength.

50mph averages to 90km/h which is wind strength in a common storm.

There's a mountain close to me with record breaking wind (over 200 Mph)

*Slow clap*

[Roebuck]

I think you're overestimating wind strength.

50mph averages to 90km/h which is wind strength in a common storm.

There's a mountain close to me with record breaking wind (over 200 Mph)

*Slow clap*

Tallest mountain in the sate you might of head of it.

[GreenSpartan082]

I think you're overestimating wind strength.

50mph averages to 90km/h which is wind strength in a common storm.

There's a mountain close to me with record breaking wind (over 200 Mph)

*Slow clap*

*Final slow clap*
Sorry force of habit.

[Survivor11]

There's a mountain close to me with record breaking wind (over 200 Mph)

*Slow clap*

Tallest mountain in the sate you might of head of it.

Are you Alaskan?

The tallest mountain in the US is the Denali in Alaska at 6 800 meters.

[JoeFilms]

I think this is the quickest a thread has ever derailed.

[Survivor11]

I think this is the quickest a thread has ever derailed.

You disappoint me, Joe.

I hold that record with the Thanos thread.

No one even mentions Thanos on the first page.

I think talking about the actual topic of the thread happened around page 60?