{"id":83,"date":"2011-04-26T13:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-04-26T13:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:30:57","slug":"getting-morebadasser-with-xtracycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/04\/getting-morebadasser-with-xtracycle.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting &#8220;MoreBadasser&#8221; with Xtracycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtracycle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xtracycle Bikes<\/a> put the call out for submittals for a contest they were calling <a thref=\"http:\/\/everydayadventurers.com\/2011\/04\/morebadasser-contest-winner\/\">Morebadasser<\/a>.  They were deliberately open-ended in their definition for what the contest would entail&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;we are calling on those that can emulate the concept of morebadasser in video format to noodle on and create a short (15-30sec) video of why Xtracycles are the kings at badasserness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who has been reading this blog or who follows my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sharalds\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> feed knows I spend a fair amount of time riding bicycles and a fair amount of that time is spent hauling stuff on bicycles.  I entered a couple videos into the contest, one was of a bunch of my friends helping me do a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22671778\" target=\"_blank\">bike move<\/a> and the other was a friend and I racing a cyclocross race.  Both of these videos featured the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtracycle.com\/cargo-bicycles\/freeradical-cargo-bicycle.html\" target=\"_blank\">FreeRadical<\/a> kits from Xtracycle. <\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t get many entries to the contest &#8211; two to be exact &#8211; both from me, but I have it on good word that I probably would have won anyway because my cyclocross video was just that much morebadasser than anything that could have gotten entered.  <\/p>\n<p align=center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22680943?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The idea behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morebadasser.com\/MoreBadasser\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">MoreBadasser<\/a> is stated in the phrase, <i>&#8220;If you have to ask, you ain&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/i>  It is prominently displayed on an embroidered hat alongside a graphic of a longtail cargo bike.  Check one out for yourself at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morebadasser.com\/MoreBadasser\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">morebadasser.com<\/a> website.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morebadasser.com\/MoreBadasser\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/morebadasser_hat.jpg\" alt=\"Morebadasser\" title=\"Morebadasser\" width=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/morebadasser_hat.jpg 800w, https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/morebadasser_hat-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/morebadasser_hat-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/morebadasser_hat-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Xtracycle Bikes put the call out for submittals for a contest they were calling Morebadasser. They were deliberately open-ended in their definition for what the contest would entail&#8230; &#8230;we are calling on those that can emulate the concept of morebadasser in video format to noodle on and create a short (15-30sec) video of why &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/04\/getting-morebadasser-with-xtracycle.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting &#8220;MoreBadasser&#8221; with Xtracycle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-montana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}