About

Welcome to the internet home of iLoveridingBicycles!

Remember blogs? I used to like blogs. I still like blogs, but I used to too. I like them more than ever before. Real voices. Real points of view. Plus more time to write, and usually a bigger screen. Things are slower here, I write all the things, myself. I’ll often share something with a friend to proofread or ask for feedback, but no ai is used here at all. These are my crappy words and blurry photos! Basic and real, like a bicycle.

A website from the modern Golden Age of bicycles; when Shimano was at nine speeds, 26in wheels ruled the world and headsets were pretty dang simple to rebuild or replace!

With this site, I hope to entertain a reading public of over a dozen people with trip reports and educate at least two or three people with informative posts. Also, hopefully, I will sell a few t-shirts and stickers or some specialty equipment along the way to support a bicycle based lifestyle. It would be really, really awesome if this made me independently wealthy.

And Who am I? I’m Chilly, aka Chilly Willy aka Chill Will aka Chessmaster Chill Will. I currently mostly ride bicycles on Martha’s Vineyard with escapes via ferry to Cape Cod when work allows. I used to mostly ride bicycles in Key West with many escapes north to America to a gravel paradise known as South Florida where you can see far more gators, turtles and birds than hills, pavement or cars. Before island life, I rode bicycles and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut; which actually has some great river riding.