Tag: cycling

  • bicicle repaired man



    bicicle repaired man, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    (please ignore that beer)

  • 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

  • can’t say



    can’t say, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    siggimus didn’t try!

    (with thom yorke in ears, singing

    i’m not here
    this isn’t happening)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • Never forget

    It is true what they say!

    You never forget how to ride a bike.

    Even after a whole week out of the saddle, everything went quite smoothly, despite the cold.

  • breaking

    breaking, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    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?

  • 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

  • cycling is fun!

    finally crawling back into the saddle got siggimus thinking about an old favourite by shonen knife:

    http://www.youtube.com/v/nnQzyfYEs78&hl=en&fs=1

    let’s all sing along:

    i want to go i want to go
    to the green fields with you baby
    c’mon let’s go wo wo wo…
    riding on a bicycle together
    we could ride forever
    c’mon let’s go wo wo wo…
    riding on the cycling road
    everyone is having fun
    riding on the cycling road
    nobody knows our cycling road

    run run run de run
    ride, riding on a bicycle

    i want to go i want to go
    to the green fields with you baby
    c’mon let’s go wo wo wo…
    riding on a bicycle together
    we could ride forever
    c’mon let’s go wo wo wo…

    riding on the cycling road
    see the green trees passing by
    sun is shining down on me
    i don’t have to wonder why

    run run run de run
    ride, riding on a bicycle

    riding on the cycling road
    green green grass surrounding me
    wind is blowing through the trees
    sun is bright and i feel happy

  • survivorer

    phew!

    another  near death experience, but this time, siggimus had the good sense of giving up

    not embarrassed to confess he gave up after bicycling two-thirds of the way home

    siggimus would be extremelier ashameder if it had only been a bit of rain

    siggimus would be extremely ashamed if it had only been a bit of wind


    but pouring rain plus 17 metres per second wind (with gusts of 25 metres per second) plus bursts of hail …

    siggimus sees no shame in surrendering to the elements when they turn the knob to 11

  • 6,43 km

    somehow managed to ride spanking new bike 6,43km home. walked <50 metres (a short, near vertical bit). legs have turned to rubber