What are the highest winds you've ridden your motorcycle in? The highest for me is about 25mph. It's hard to keep the bike steady when you are going 70 and the wind is 25 mph. I had to lock my elbows.
That happened to me on I-80 in Nevada. 84 Goldwing and the wife on the back. Leaned over into the wind to keep straight. Leaned right in the left hand side of the fast lane and the next thing I know I am in the right hand side of the right lane and I hadn't moved anything. Then with just enough time to think what the... I was back in the left hand side of the fast lane again. Exactly back where I started from. The wife goes... what did you do? Nothing was my reply.I've ridden in some crosswinds before where the bike was leaned over like in a normal turn just to keep going straight, maybe 40-50MPH, I dunno exactly, we get a lot of strong winds in the desert. The full coverage bodywork on the ST1100 is like a sail in a crosswind. My favorite wind experience was about an hour outside Vegas on US95 where I rode through an invisible "dirt devil". There was no dirt in the devil to make it visible, it was just a big cyclone of wind that threw my bike sideways for a couple seconds, then when I rode through the eye I was vertical again, only to get thrown sideways in the opposite direction when I hit the other side of the cyclone.