Commuting - You know you're an HHCMF when...

... you're cruising uphill at 13mph on a 50-lb bike in February on your way to work and you're singing out loud.

How about.....

you're sitting at your desk, your legs are still burning from your morning commute, some idiot tried to run you over today, and it's raining but you still can't wait till 5 to go get on your bike.

You look forward to the 0 degree ride in the morning.

You know you're an HHCMF when...

...you're cruising uphill at 13mph on a 50-lb bike in February on your way to work and you're singing out loud.

Yikes! :eek: 13 MPH uphill? "Cruising"? Barring a major tailwind, I can't possibly imagine pulling that off.

... when you consider lightweight parts a negative. After you load in your laptop, change of clothes, lunch, thermos of coffee, tools, cap, varying degrees of cold weather gear, pump, tube, 3lb light battery, etc etc who would really spend extra money to save a couple grams?

...despite hating your job, you actually look foward to going to work in the morning.

Can't wait to put your Studded Knobbies back on!

Wooohoooooooo Snowed last night!

. . . when its 37 degrees out and raining, and you're fired up because you finally get to see how well your new fenders work.

Yikes! :eek: 13 MPH uphill? "Cruising"? Barring a major tailwind, I can't possibly imagine pulling that off.
Well it wasn't a huge hill, and it was really like 12.8... ;). You only started commuting recently though didn't you? Give it time. I fully expected a "13 mph, that's it?" response from someone :).



Can't wait to put your Studded Knobbies back on!
You mean you take them off?


who would really spend extra money to save a couple grams?
Ditto. I keep looking at fancy lightweight stuff in the LBS and then going "wait... what the heck am I thinking?"

... want to get a job just so you can justify riding every day. :D

You mean you take them off?



LOL I would keep them on, but Snow only sticks around on the roads maybe a day or two here. Offroad is a different story. Besides I have another wheel set... damn right I take them off LMAO

Be like listening to "Rice Crispies" all the time if I didn't

LOL I would keep them on, but Snow only sticks around on the roads maybe a day or two here. Offroad is a different story. Besides I have another wheel set... damn right I take them off LMAO

Be like listening to "Rice Crispies" all the time if I didn't
Hehe, that would be me. Patches of ice might last up to a week or two after a snowfall, but we've only had two significant snowfalls this year. But I've been riding the studs since december :D. Rice crispies every day!

...you geek out when you get new bike shoes that look like normal shoes and don't make clicking noises when you walk with the SPDs mounted.

Well it wasn't a huge hill, and it was really like 12.8... ;). You only started commuting recently though didn't you? Give it time. I fully expected a "13 mph, that's it?" response from someone :)..
:) I only started commuting recently, but my climbing speed on my commute is faster than my climbing speed on other rides. Yes, I'm in street clothes, I'm trying to avoid sweating so that I don't have to freshen up afterward, my commuter bike is heavier, and I'm carrying a U-lock. But it's a mere three miles, and the hill is right at the end of my commute. It's about half a mile of about 6% grade. During my commute, I often hit a red light at the bottom, so there's no momentum helping me out. I sustain about 11 MPH when commuting, about 10 MPH at tempo pace on my carbon fiber bike. I commute purely because it's fun, but since I'm out there anyway, I've also turned it into a chance to improve my hill-climbing speed. But the big thing is, there's no way I'd consider myself to be "cruising" at that speed, and no way I'd still have breath to sing!

You know you're an HHCMF when you look forward to going to work even if you don't look forward to being at work. :)

What song were you singing?

What song were you singing?
QUEEN
"I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my bike.
I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride it where I like!"

You know you're an HHCMF when...

You are happy when the wind blows down the bridges so that it makes the only "hills" in South Jersey harder.

you know you're HHCMF when..


you're really REALLY unhappy when you haven't bike commuted to work.

OK what is HHCMF?

OK what is HHCMF?

Have you been under a rock or something? HHCMF:



Welcome to the HHCMF Club (Happy, Healthy Commuting Mutha F'ers). We take pride in showing off our well muscled legs and tight butts to friends and co-workers, using the money we save on gas and transit to buy cool stuff for our bikes like raccoon tails and grips w/ tassles, and only slightly embellishing our exciting tales of heroism and derring-do as we ride our trusty steeds to and from work surrounded by maniacal impotent death squads in SUVs.


I just made a submission to urbandictionary.com on behalf of the HHCMF, BTW. :D

What song were you singing?

Is this the way to Amarillo?

Dunno who sings it, but it's the one that british tv host did a funny video to.

Is this the way to Amarillo?

Dunno who sings it, but it's the one that british tv host did a funny video to.

(Oh yeah and of course I only know one verse so I was just singing the refrain over and over again ;))

OK what is HHCMF?

It's a club for the soft commuters that can't handle what it takes to make it in the VL/XCC (Very Long/Extreme Commuter Club) :D :p

Hey, where's your VL/XCC shirt? Oh yeah, they don't have them... ;)

...when people are complaining about lousy parking during class and you smile to yourself :)

By the way, I was wearing my HHCMF shirt at school today and I got a ton of compliments and a lot of "Wow, that's bright!"

You know you're an HHCMF when...

....You are passing cars stuck in rush hour traffic...


Makes me go FAST!

You know you're an HHCMF when...

....You are passing cars stuck in rush hour traffic...


Makes me go FAST!


+1

I love doing that.

and now I know what an HHCMF is. :D

I also sing... man I didn't know there was a club for this... I thought I just was a bit deranged. :eek:

When you don't wear your reflective vest because you HHCMF shirt is brighter. :eek:

When you look forward to extreme weather just so you can beat it. :D

Hey y'all.

I suppose if I haveto ask... but I'm betting that I'm not the only one wondering. What does HHCMF stand for? Reading the thread I feel I am one but don't know what it means. :o

... you're cruising uphill at 13mph on a 50-lb bike in February on your way to work and you're singing out loud.

Check!
(Does my 43-lb bike count? :D )


you're sitting at your desk, your legs are still burning from your morning commute, some idiot tried to run you over today, and it's raining but you still can't wait till 5 to go get on your bike.

Check!
(Nearly got hit this morning, by an effin cager who failed to yield... Probably missed me by 4-5 inches...)


Can't wait to put your Studded Knobbies back on!

Check!
(Oh wait, they're on already...)

Hey, where's your VL/XCC shirt? Oh yeah, they don't have them... ;)

They haven't yet invented a shirt worthy of bearing our club name :p

I just made a submission to urbandictionary.com on behalf of the HHCMF, BTW. :D
Awesome! Does this count towards my 15 min. of fame? How many seconds would it count for?

Hey y'all.

I suppose if I haveto ask... but I'm betting that I'm not the only one wondering. What does HHCMF stand for? Reading the thread I feel I am one but don't know what it means. :o
And the answer is:


Welcome to the HHCMF Club (Happy, Healthy Commuting Mutha F'ers). We take pride in showing off our well muscled legs and tight butts to friends and co-workers, using the money we save on gas and transit to buy cool stuff for our bikes like raccoon tails and grips w/ tassles, and only slightly embellishing our exciting tales of heroism and derring-do as we ride our trusty steeds to and from work surrounded by maniacal impotent death squads in SUVs.

...despite hating your job, you actually look foward to going to work in the morning.

does anything else need to be said?

You find ways to make your ride to work longer. And the ride home even longer.

You bring a bike transportable offering for the company potluck, and actually thought about what to bring based on it's portability.

When you get a ride and feel like a sell-out. (Reasons for this would include inoperable bike, bulky items to buy, golf ball size hail, headwind over 30 mph.)

When your driver's license is 1. Expired. 2. Wrong address after moving, or 3. Both, and you don't care.
Cheers!
Sverre

Yikes! :eek: 13 MPH uphill? "Cruising"? Barring a major tailwind, I can't possibly imagine pulling that off.

If it makes you feel any better, today I was just managing 8mph up the same hill. Stupid headwinds.

Isn't the Queen song, "I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike," instead of "I like to ride my bicycle?"

When you get a ride and feel like a sell-out. (Reasons for this would include inoperable bike, bulky items to buy, golf ball size hail, headwind over 30 mph.)

When your driver's license is 1. Expired. 2. Wrong address after moving, or 3. Both, and you don't care.
Cheers!
Sverre

Haha I almost got to "both" last year (by a few days!).

You turn down rides in a car on a 35F below windchill morning just to feel great about doing it!

You have to turn down car rides from the same person more than twice at the same time.

"Want a ride home?"
"Are you sure? It's miserable out there."
"Come on, let me give you a ride."

You find ways to make your ride to work longer. And the ride home even longer.

Yep, the way to work is 7.5 miles. The way home is 20. Never could figure out the physics of that. Must be some kind of quantum shift in the space time continuim :D

You bring a bike transportable offering for the company potluck, and actually thought about what to bring based on it's portability.

How many times...if I can't take it on the bike, it may never get there. I have actually thought of tieing a slow cooker to the rack but instead I came up with something different. I am sure it can be done though.

When your driver's license is 1. Expired. 2. Wrong address after moving, or 3. Both, and you don't care.
Cheers!
Sverre
Oh crap, thx for reminding me. I moved 3 months ago.

You leave earlier on the coldest mornings because you want to see a new low temp extreme and gotta get out there before it warms up a degree.

They haven't yet invented a shirt worthy of bearing our club name :p

If you were REALLY that extreme a club, you wouldn't have shirts you'd just have the club name tattooed on your back :D. Everyone could see it because who needs to wear a shirt in 0-degree temps?

...you spill stuff all over your clothes at lunch and say "No problem, I've got a change of clothes!"

Yep, the way to work is 7.5 miles. The way home is 20. Never could figure out the physics of that. Must be some kind of quantum shift in the space time continuim :D

When I was in college I had a route that was 35 mi to school but only 5 miles back home... must have been a time space thing then too.

You eat just as much as the heaviest guy at the office, but you beat just about everyone up the stairs