(please ignore that beer)
Tag: cycling
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bicycle repair man
day!
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avertissement!
avertissement!, originally uploaded by siggimus.
read instructions carefully, proceed with extreme caution & ride this mountain bike at your own, personal risk
improper & careless handling of this self-powered transportation device can result in serious injury or death
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frozen bit
frozen bit, originally uploaded by siggimus.
one of a multitude that siggimus somehow managed to deftly circumnavigate, despite his disquietude
what began as mild apprehension & slight concern, soon mutated into unabated fear, interspersed with near-panic and debilitating terror attacks as the frozen little bits reflected the beam from his super-duper headlight, as it slit open the hungry tar of darkness enveloping siggimus (much like moseses trick with the puddle) giving siggimus steady footing for to cycle on in the sea of oblivion
(really really wants studded tires, does siggimus
at that pace, old ladies with canes could have overtaken siggimus in throngs, were they given to thronging on dark & icy mornings)
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adventures in cycling
although the ‘cycle to work’ project has long ended, siggimus heroically & unselfishly still cycles to work a lot. you could say it’s to save the environment, you could say he’s a good man. actually, you could say a lot of things about siggimus, all but three of them good
this has unwittingly put him on a rollercoaster ride of life, with hair-raising ups & gut-wrenching downs
let us examine two random examples from the last 25 hours
25 hours ago
being the superhero he is, siggimus managed personal best time ever, 00:16:00 – sixteen minutes flat
without even trying so much
an admirable feat considering how it took just over 21 mins the first time he cycled that route. & in all probability this is a world record, although siggimus is of course too modest to claim it
a superhuman feat considering his best time before that was 00:16:42. he bested his best time a whole 42 seconds. usain bolt, busain smolt
this means an average speed of 26,3 km/h. slightly less than bolt’s average, but bolt didn’t have to go through a near vertical maze of a graveyard, so there
30 mins ago
the morning was humid
dark clouds secretly gathered in the distance, evilly plotting to thwart siggimuses happy plans & rain on his parade & bug him a bit
blissfully unaware of the plotting of the clouds, siggimus heads out in good spirit, merrily cycling away over the wet asphalt, joyfully circumventing any & all puddles, sufjan stevens caressing both of his ears gently
flies past bónus, burns through yard, crosses that street, dring-dring!-get-out-of-siggimuses-important-way,-man!
clouds a-plotting
whooooooshes! down hill that’s much less fun when you come the other way
clouds cease their foul plotting & get ready to smite
siggimus is approx. 50 cm onto that fateful other street when suddenly, as if by pure cloud-magic, a tiny but sturdy car that wasn’t there before appears out of nowhere, heading directly for siggimus in a slow, but determined fashion, aiming to maim him in the awfullest of ways, leaving him incapable of cycling or baking betty crocker ever again
with the agility and swiftness of a cat, siggimus swerves out of way, activates turbo-legs & (ironically!) in a burst of cloud, disappears out of the way of that tiny but sturdy killing machine, whose navigator looked pale as a bucket
another day, another near death experience
thankfully siggimus has a broad back & strong bones in it. mere humans would likely crack under this kind of stress
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breaking
pb speed records
(& some of the lesser laws of physics too)
update: so, that’s the bicycle speedometer boldly stating that siggimuses max speed this morning was 254,0 km/h
considering the thoughts that reaching 215,2 km/h sparked, this is — at 30% over terminal velocity — can we agree on interesting?
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it’s over!
& siggimus survived!!
siggimus is quite happy about his achievement in the whole thing, especially after losing a whole week to a sprained neck (walking that one day)
in numbers
21 – days in total
14 – working days (thus days counted in thingy)
4 – days missed (because of sprained neck ‘sports’ injury)
12 – days counted (you’re allowed to make up for missed days, as long as you go to work)
1 – days out of those 12 walked (permitted!)
11 – days cycled
19,21 – average distance per day, in km
19 – trips cycled (not necessary to cycle both ways)
230.470 – total distance cycled, in metres
13:34:38 – total time spent cycling
32,17 – longest day-distance, in km
97% – infection rate of cycling bug
1-2 – days siggimus will rest before getting back into saddle
although siggimus will barely manage the workplace average in distance, siggimus takes comfort in two things. 1) if he had actually cycled 3 more days, at average of 20,52 km per day (if you only count the days cycled), siggimus woulda been a bit over the average 🙂 2) the workplace average is offset by seriously lunaticcy people who had cycled over 580 kms last time siggimus checked