Cycling Anonymous

[Catrin]

My name is Catrin and I am addicted to cycling...I know the signs have been apparent to everyone around me, but I have finally accepted that and all of the symptoms are there:

Great fun and enjoyment when I am on the bike (check)
Hard to stay off the bike when I have a free moment (check)
Patting my bike on her tush when I pass by her in the living room (check)
Very hard to stay off the bike long enough for an injury to heal (well, this is just silly)
Selling unused electronic toys for bike support (check)

Counting the days until Sunday when I will take my first easy ride in 9 days - and already planning my route :) Perhaps Saturday, but no earlier. Thankfully they are calling for 30 mph winds on Friday so there is no way that I would try that for an "easy" ride :eek:

[Roadtrip]

Hello Catrin.

My name is Roadtrip and I am addicted to cycling...

IS this a BAD thing??

LOL

[Catrin]

Nah, this is one addiction we can CELEBRATE :D

[warneral]

I'm addicted and I'm not even riding at the moment.

But I can still remember the thrill of a chill brought on by descending in to a low area, and the feeling of adrenaline pushing through my veins. LOVE!

[MCAP]

I, too, am addicted. I haven't been able to ride since my triumphant 100 mile weekend last weekend and it's killing me! Thankfully, husband and I are going out of town tomorrow and taking the bikes along too. Must. Ride. Soon!

[Owlie]

I'm in withdrawal at the moment. Between the weather (it's rained nearly every weekend) and this weird hip pain, I've been off the bike for a bit. Hopefully I can get something in over DBF's fall break.

[Melalvai]

But I can still remember the thrill of a chill brought on by descending in to a low area
Oh, I love the way that low cool air feels. My old commute before I moved involved crossing a creek and as I FLEW down the hill on hot summer days it would get colder and colder. It wasn't quite as pleasant a sensation on cold winter days but it was still neat to feel the air change as I got closer to the creek. Recently at night I felt it on the gentle slope that passes for a hill around here.

[colorisnt]

I am with you, Melalvai. I love the feeling when I got through a swampy area at dusk. I used to have a route back home that goes through a wetland. It was my favorite part of the night. Down a hill, around a bend and through this swamp. No cars and no worries!

[nikkoblu2]

Catrin...you crack me up! I often get a chuckle from your posts. If you're ever in NJ I'd love to take a ride with you.

[Catrin]

Catrin...you crack me up! I often get a chuckle from your posts. If you're ever in NJ I'd love to take a ride with you.

I like to try and poke a little fun at myself, keeps me from taking myself too seriously ;)

[kjay]

Sure wish your addiction were contagious, Catrin. :-)

[DarcyInOregon]

Patting my bike on her tush when I pass by her in the living room (check)


I am meeting more cyclists who confess to keeping their bike inside the house. Happy to know that I am not unique in this respect. One male cycling friend (who has put in over 11,000 miles on his bike this year by doing double centuries almost every weekend) even shared a link to a news story about how a female cyclist got her bike stolen by keeping it stored in her garage. I told him I don't care what people think who might walk into my house, that my bike is that important to me. He confessed that he keeps his bike inside too, in his living room, up on a stand over a tarp so he can fiddle with it in his spare time.

[kjay]

Right on! Both my Trek and my camel share my bedroom — should change my forum name to CamelTrek but don't know how. ;-)

[Catrin]

Right on! Both my Trek and my camel share my bedroom — should change my forum name to CamelTrek but don't know how. ;-)

I think that one of the Admins have to change your forum name - I am sure that one will come along and let you know.

Darcy, I hear you! I actually have no other place to store my bike, but it would probably be there if I did... The manager of my forthcoming new apartment told me that quite a few people there just lock their bike to the steps outside. These steps are REALLY outside :eek: Perhaps these are just beater bikes, but still, to be exposed to the weather like that and to theft as well....Ms. Explorer certainly deserves much more!

[hebe]

I'm hooked too, no idea how that happened! Oh yes, just that feeling of flying, jeans getter looser, 2lbs off without dieting and getting both my head and my body to myself for an hour or two at a time.

My bike is locked up in my fairly secure garage. I knew that I was getting serious about cycling when I moved it from the garden end of the garage to the road end of the garage :D

[DMC]

I am an addict as well. My husband often states that he thinks I love my bike more than him. I have to point out to him that the bike doesn't talk back as much as he does...

My bike either lives in a number code locked room at my tri-team home gym near Central Park, or in my apartment. But since bike theft is so rampant here, this is not considered weird and obsessive behavior, just protecting your investment.

[Ritamarie]

Hi. My name is Rita Marie and I am addicted to bicycling too.

My husband says I have "a problem" and if I am off the bike for a few days straight he tells me that I am "getting the shakes" which I interpret as "you are a real grumpy gills since you haven't ridden in the past couple of days". :-)

[Catrin]

Hi. My name is Rita Marie and I am addicted to bicycling too.

My husband says I have "a problem" and if I am off the bike for a few days straight he tells me that I am "getting the shakes" which I interpret as "you are a real grumpy gills since you haven't ridden in the past couple of days". :-)

Yep, I've been like this over the last week. It was a joy to ride my 12 miles today, and am looking forward to tomorrow :D Still testing the hammie, but thankful that things do seem to be healing.

[PamNY]

It is like an addiction. I feel quite grumpy if I can't go out on the bike. I thought it would take a lot more mileage than I log to become a real addiction, but no, even my little slow 12-mile jaunt has become necessary.

I can't imagine storing a bike in a garage. I live in an apartment, so it's a non-issue, but I would never leave a bike where it is so vulnerable. Besides, I think bikes are pretty.