Comments for It's Just A Ride http://ijar.chiggins.com Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:10:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 Comment on Multi-Modality, The Wrap-up, and Other Excrutiating Minutiae by Max http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/12/28/multi-modality-the-wrap-up-and-other-excrutiating-minutiae/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Max Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:10:14 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1875#comment-331 Happy New Year Mr. Chiggins, and thank you for an entertaining and informative blog. You and all those other cargo blogging people have been very instrumental in returning me to my bicycle ways. And thanks for showing me there is a nice way by bike to get to the CP REI. I figure one of these days we will inevitably cross paths (really bad pun not intended). And in the spirit of safety in the new year I pass along something I stumbled across. You probably have seen it, but just in case, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQgAMkMmsfg Max Happy New Year Mr. Chiggins, and thank you for an entertaining and informative blog. You and all those other cargo blogging people have been very instrumental in returning me to my bicycle ways. And thanks for showing me there is a nice way by bike to get to the CP REI. I figure one of these days we will inevitably cross paths (really bad pun not intended).

And in the spirit of safety in the new year I pass along something I stumbled across. You probably have seen it, but just in case, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQgAMkMmsfg

Max

]]> Comment on Multi-Modality, The Wrap-up, and Other Excrutiating Minutiae by chiggins http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/12/28/multi-modality-the-wrap-up-and-other-excrutiating-minutiae/comment-page-1/#comment-330 chiggins Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:06:07 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1875#comment-330 The stuff, it is good, doctor! Here's to your decade as well, and I hope one way or another we get to see you and meet your boy soon. Either out this way, or maybe in your neck of the woods. It was in the 20s and wind-chilling to low single-digits today, and I was doing some building in the backyard. Your neighborhood's sounding a lot better than mine right now. The stuff, it is good, doctor! Here’s to your decade as well, and I hope one way or another we get to see you and meet your boy soon. Either out this way, or maybe in your neck of the woods.

It was in the 20s and wind-chilling to low single-digits today, and I was doing some building in the backyard. Your neighborhood’s sounding a lot better than mine right now.

]]> Comment on Multi-Modality, The Wrap-up, and Other Excrutiating Minutiae by gnat23 http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/12/28/multi-modality-the-wrap-up-and-other-excrutiating-minutiae/comment-page-1/#comment-329 gnat23 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:21:03 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1875#comment-329 Good stuff, captain. Hope your 2010 brings similar enlightenment! Good stuff, captain. Hope your 2010 brings similar enlightenment!

]]> Comment on Multi-Modality, The Wrap-up, and Other Excrutiating Minutiae by chiggins http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/12/28/multi-modality-the-wrap-up-and-other-excrutiating-minutiae/comment-page-1/#comment-328 chiggins Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:09:14 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1875#comment-328 Back atchoo'n'yinz. We will not fail to get together this year. Back atchoo’n'yinz. We will not fail to get together this year.

]]> Comment on Multi-Modality, The Wrap-up, and Other Excrutiating Minutiae by Tod http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/12/28/multi-modality-the-wrap-up-and-other-excrutiating-minutiae/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Tod Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:13:29 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1875#comment-327 Cheers, Creighton. Happy New Year to you and yours. Hope to get together with you in 2010. Tod, Jen, and Zoe Cheers, Creighton. Happy New Year to you and yours. Hope to get together with you in 2010.

Tod, Jen, and Zoe

]]> Comment on Clovis (Stolen) by It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » Multi-Modality, The Wrap-up, and Other Excrutiating Minutiae http://ijar.chiggins.com/the-stable/clovis/comment-page-1/#comment-326 It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » Multi-Modality, The Wrap-up, and Other Excrutiating Minutiae Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:20:47 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?page_id=465#comment-326 [...] I lost a good bike. I miss you, buddy. [...] [...] I lost a good bike. I miss you, buddy. [...]

]]> Comment on What Moves The Heart by chiggins http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/12/07/what-moves-the-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-325 chiggins Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:08:56 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1817#comment-325 Congratulations on your first season! I figured it wouldn't be long before you'd jump up and be back in the game, although I'm not sure you're right about not pushing through when it wasn't fun. You took on a season series, which seems to me to be as much about commitment and soldiering on through the not-so-fun times as it is loving the good stuff. (And just to be clear, I'm not disparaging that at all, I think stuff that tests your commitment, endurance, character, etc is well worthwhile, and I totally admire you for taking on another bad-ass challenge. I'm saying I'm a pleasure pig and my workout motto is, "no pain, no pain!" I'll still ride all over next year, But I need to switch from "training miles" to long, fun rides without a cyclometer to get my my kind of payoff.) I'm still 60 miles away from my 4k, but yeah, it's pretty damned cool :) I wore out a pair of Fat Franks this year, new ones are on the way. If they could eat any more glass they'd be in the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow. Congratulations on your first season! I figured it wouldn’t be long before you’d jump up and be back in the game, although I’m not sure you’re right about not pushing through when it wasn’t fun. You took on a season series, which seems to me to be as much about commitment and soldiering on through the not-so-fun times as it is loving the good stuff.

(And just to be clear, I’m not disparaging that at all, I think stuff that tests your commitment, endurance, character, etc is well worthwhile, and I totally admire you for taking on another bad-ass challenge. I’m saying I’m a pleasure pig and my workout motto is, “no pain, no pain!” I’ll still ride all over next year, But I need to switch from “training miles” to long, fun rides without a cyclometer to get my my kind of payoff.)

I’m still 60 miles away from my 4k, but yeah, it’s pretty damned cool :) I wore out a pair of Fat Franks this year, new ones are on the way. If they could eat any more glass they’d be in the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow.

]]> Comment on What Moves The Heart by gnat23 http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/12/07/what-moves-the-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-324 gnat23 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:06:19 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1817#comment-324 Putting some distance behind it, I think I put my entire racing career onto the arbitrary results of the last race of the series. Maybe not my best move. I forgot that I was racing to have fun, and when it wasn't fun, I probably should have not forced myself through it. After a full day off with no exercise at all, I rode 20 miles today, bundled in about 3 layers of wool and Goretex, and went retardedly slow. I took shortcuts. It got dark. It was awesome. My off-season still includes bikes: cruisers and trail rides and pants clips and fixing old Frenchie and staying inside when it rains. Racing was a different side of being on two wheels, one I had never tried before. I still have a lot to learn, about myself as much as about strategy. It's put a fresh twist on things, given me a new challenge. Seriously, because I couldn't imagine what crazy endurance ride I would have to try after a double century and Deathride to top those... Dude, we both banked 4000 mi this year. How flippin' cool is that? Putting some distance behind it, I think I put my entire racing career onto the arbitrary results of the last race of the series. Maybe not my best move. I forgot that I was racing to have fun, and when it wasn’t fun, I probably should have not forced myself through it.

After a full day off with no exercise at all, I rode 20 miles today, bundled in about 3 layers of wool and Goretex, and went retardedly slow. I took shortcuts. It got dark. It was awesome. My off-season still includes bikes: cruisers and trail rides and pants clips and fixing old Frenchie and staying inside when it rains. Racing was a different side of being on two wheels, one I had never tried before. I still have a lot to learn, about myself as much as about strategy. It’s put a fresh twist on things, given me a new challenge. Seriously, because I couldn’t imagine what crazy endurance ride I would have to try after a double century and Deathride to top those…

Dude, we both banked 4000 mi this year. How flippin’ cool is that?

]]> Comment on Monday Morning Linkfest by RenshBreni http://ijar.chiggins.com/2008/10/27/monday-morning-linkfest/comment-page-1/#comment-322 RenshBreni Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:54:37 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=945#comment-322 HEY, about Big Bird Singing "being green" .. another user has the same video posted, as well as a lot of other JH memorial video. Enjoy the link while it lasts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ HEY, about Big Bird Singing “being green” .. another user has the same video posted, as well as a lot of other JH memorial video. Enjoy the link while it lasts!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ

]]> Comment on Salad For The Rest Of The Year by chiggins http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/09/24/salad-for-the-rest-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-320 chiggins Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:35:56 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1729#comment-320 Max: thanks much! Smudgemo: Thankya sir. Wow, Chicago, Milwaukee <i>and</i> St. Louis? Whadja gain, like 800, 900 lbs? Max: thanks much!

Smudgemo: Thankya sir. Wow, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis? Whadja gain, like 800, 900 lbs?

]]> Comment on Salad For The Rest Of The Year by Smudgemo http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/09/24/salad-for-the-rest-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Smudgemo Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:25:47 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1729#comment-319 Sorry for your loss, brother. My last one was in 2003. A flight to Chicago, a funeral in Milwaukee, and a wedding a few days later in St. Louis. Strange days, indeed. Sorry for your loss, brother. My last one was in 2003. A flight to Chicago, a funeral in Milwaukee, and a wedding a few days later in St. Louis. Strange days, indeed.

]]> Comment on Salad For The Rest Of The Year by Max http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/09/24/salad-for-the-rest-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Max Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:04:42 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1729#comment-318 I want you to know I gained 12 pounds just reading this post. Thanks for a really nice, inspiring site. I want you to know I gained 12 pounds just reading this post. Thanks for a really nice, inspiring site.

]]> Comment on The Boy Can Skuut! by chiggins http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/09/08/the-boy-can-skuut/comment-page-1/#comment-312 chiggins Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:42:58 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1697#comment-312 I've been waiting for him to take to it, and he got all over it this weekend (and, yepper, stuck it right on the Xtra once he got tired after a a little over a mile). I'm not in any hurry, but it's hard not to see him loving it and think, "Here we go, we'll be picking out a Spider Man bike before long..." Wife and I are super stoked. I’ve been waiting for him to take to it, and he got all over it this weekend (and, yepper, stuck it right on the Xtra once he got tired after a a little over a mile). I’m not in any hurry, but it’s hard not to see him loving it and think, “Here we go, we’ll be picking out a Spider Man bike before long…” Wife and I are super stoked.

]]> Comment on The Boy Can Skuut! by Anne http://ijar.chiggins.com/2009/09/08/the-boy-can-skuut/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Anne Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:23:38 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?p=1697#comment-311 Love the Scuut. So fun and it fits nicely in the Xtracycle FreeLoader bags - you can transport it without much hassle. Nice! Love the Scuut. So fun and it fits nicely in the Xtracycle FreeLoader bags – you can transport it without much hassle. Nice!

]]> Comment on Nigel by It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » When Seasons Collide http://ijar.chiggins.com/the-stable/nigel/comment-page-1/#comment-310 It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » When Seasons Collide Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:22:20 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?page_id=461#comment-310 [...] of a commute I make on Cledus will be replaced most mornings with the happy rolling melody of Nigel’s fat, creamy tires chewing up bricks, asphalt, and gravel with gusto. To tell you the truth, it’s hard to be sad [...] [...] of a commute I make on Cledus will be replaced most mornings with the happy rolling melody of Nigel’s fat, creamy tires chewing up bricks, asphalt, and gravel with gusto. To tell you the truth, it’s hard to be sad [...]

]]> Comment on Cledus by It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » When Seasons Collide http://ijar.chiggins.com/the-stable/cledus/comment-page-1/#comment-309 It’s Just A Ride » Blog Archive » When Seasons Collide Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:12:44 +0000 http://ijar.chiggins.com/?page_id=463#comment-309 [...] Cledus and I had an incredible summer together, logging over 1700 miles and climbing almost 60,000 feet since Memorial Day, bringing my totals for the first two-thirds of the year to over 3100 miles and over 100,000 feet of climbing. Our many miles together culminated in my first ever century, which was far and away baddest-ass thing I’ve done this year, and raising money and riding for Team Fatty made it even more meaningful. I’ll likely do more centuries, but I’ll always regard that one with a special fondness. [...] [...] Cledus and I had an incredible summer together, logging over 1700 miles and climbing almost 60,000 feet since Memorial Day, bringing my totals for the first two-thirds of the year to over 3100 miles and over 100,000 feet of climbing. Our many miles together culminated in my first ever century, which was far and away baddest-ass thing I’ve done this year, and raising money and riding for Team Fatty made it even more meaningful. I’ll likely do more centuries, but I’ll always regard that one with a special fondness. [...]

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