YOu know you've gone over to the dark side when you concede that $600 is an entry-level bike!
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YOu know you've gone over to the dark side when you concede that $600 is an entry-level bike!
feel free to add to this thread:cool:
...when you find yourself arguing with your S/O that your bike CAN'T stay outside over the winter, cover or no, because:
a) Your saddle might get damp/wet/water damaged
b) the cold/wet might make it unhappy
c) it might get lonely
d) YOU might feel guilty, leaving it outside! :rolleyes:
When you already did 4 hours of riding with a friend in the morning, then going home and seeing the sun you figure....well, there are 6 more hours of daylight, might as well ride as much of it as possible. After all, in winter there will be 7 or 8 hours of daylight, got to get in those rides...
When you get a cool new pink jersey and immediately think....
damn! my camelback doesn't match, and neither do my socks or clipless pedals! Subsequently, you furiously going through the TE pages to remedy the problem :)
...when faced with the "Gas or carbs?" problem, with just the bare minimum amt of gas in your car to make it to work and back, AND just the bare minimum of biking food/gel/electrolytes to make it through a hard-riding weekend, you look at your car and say "Sorry, only taking you to work." and bike everywhere (or bum rides) all weekend after buying your carb fuel. :rolleyes:
Your entry level bike was $109 (in 1972): Cottered steel crank, steel rims, Simplex plastic deraileurs, Mafac (squeal-like-heck) brakes, steel frame, 30 lb. Your good bike two years later was $200: Stronglight alloy cotterless crankset, sewup rims, Universal 61 brakes, Columbus straight-gage frame, 24 lb.
...when you look at your weekly $30 for gas, then look at the bike and its $15 for gel and protein powders, look at DGF/DH and say "Think we can bike to (someplace nonriders would think is a long, long, impossible, crazy distance, like 50 miles) sometime?"
then see them make their :eek: face. :D
...when you hear "You cleaned WHAT with my brand new towel?!" so many times that you can say it with dpita, word for word, in the same pitch and cadence.
...and look forward to being flogged with said towel.
...and buy replacements.
...just to do it all over again.
:eek: ;) :D
You know you're on the dark side when almost all of the dish sized towels
in the house have black stains on them.
When.....you wear your biking clothes sometimes on days even when you know you won't be doing any riding.
When.... You find yourself considering the aerodynamic qualities of even the "regular" clothes you are buying.
When the red T-shirt you wore this weekend looks like a grease rag, and the grease rags look worse.
When your hands don't come clean for 2 days.
When every white T-shirt you own has black grease stains.
When you're going on a 40 mile ride and you ride 10 miles each way to get there.
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Originally Posted by mimitabby
I believe you might be talking about somebody I, um, am. LOL
Awesome indeed! Actually I had a half a mind to ride home and get my hubby to pick up the car with me later. Turns out it was good I didn't tho, he was out for the afternoon with a friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
oh and to keep with the theme...
when your kayak hasn't even seen the light of day this whole season :(
... when your SO complains about the sheer number of dirty rags around the house (in contrast to your perfectly clean, sparkling bike) so you say "Fine!" and go off to fix said problem...
....then they come back later, complaining about the black grease ring around the washer's tub.
...and the fact that the laundry room smells of grease and lube.
...and the fact that the dryer is full of grease-stained (still dirty) rags. :eek:
You might be right :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pooks
You consider spendng $325 on a saddle as I am now......... I have it bad for the Brooks Swallow
When you're perfectly willing to live on potatoes, eggs, and spam for a week so you can spend grocery money on a bottom bracket instead.
When you forgo a new nose ring (titanium and zirconia) for the same reason.
When you start to think you should buy another Brooks for bike #2, rather than switching your one and only Brooks back and forth between the two bikes. And you haven't even gotten bike #2 yet. And you KNOW you really need to let the Visa cool down a bit.
...when you buy a helmet in dark grey and black to match your nose ring (titanium and hemetite) and plugs.
When you really want titanium circle barbells for your ears, but are thinking of getting ti captive bead rings instead because they are cheaper. Even though you hear they are a bear. Because if you do that, you'll maybe have money for Bikename stickers then. (but since you really don't have the money for rings, it's kinda like robbing Peter to pay Paul)
When you make your child ride his bike, and he thanks you for it.
When you see the word "RAW" in print somewhere and instantly think, "Oh, yeah, that's the Ride Around Washington"--
a randonneur week that Jim Carson just posted about on his website---so cool:
http://www.jimcarson.com/a/2006/08/r...6_summar.shtml
When it's the last day of the month and after posting your morning ride, your Bike Journal mileage reads 242, and you think, "I could come home after work and get in 8 more miles to make a 250-mile month."
P.S. An evening thunderstorm prevented me from actually doing this.:mad:
... You no longer take the fast lane on the freeway. You are content staying in the right lane and ignoring the other drivers whizzing by you.
... You send your friends pics of hot new bikes
... You try on a new suit and wish it had a padded bottom and pockets in the back
... You spend way too much time on TE!!!
. . . when you call in sick to sneak in a ride
. . . when you take a vacation day to stay home and watch the baby because you'd rather have a babysitter for that night's weekly ride than for during work hours
. . . when the burley has more miles than the car seat
When you're riding with your kids and come up to a hill, look at the kids with a great big mom smile and say with pure glee 'First hill of the day! C'mon you know you can do it' while being met with rolling children eyes...:rolleyes:
When you look at your new pink wheels and think "I really *need* that pink saddle bag." :p
You are convinced your vastly uneven, but hard earned bike tan is actually tres chic :)
Everyone you know, and even some strangers, begin virtually every conversation with - 'so what mountain did you ride up this time?'
You cannot even begin to remember the names of people you ride with, but you know exactly what make, model, year, and mileage their bikes have~
. . . when "date" night is a half-century ride through rolling farm land with a picnic in a desolate cemetery. Then getting felt-up your new "Speed Queen" jersey behind a headstone. ;)
..when you don't recognize your bike buddies without a helmet on and in "street clothes."
...when you actually consider spending $400 for a computer for you bike.
...when you say "Ahhh, I can clean the house tomorrow. It's too pretty to be inside."
When you think Limewave's date night sounds pretty darn good!:D
When you have the day off, but plan to wake up early to call another time zone about a bike. And then without using an alarm you wake up waaaay too early, even for that time zone!
When you try to place every noise you hear from someone else's bike. Robyn, that noise your bike made sounded alot like spoke noises, but I know it wasn't, too loud. You must tell me what it really was.
When you lay on the ground to look through a hollow Bontrager spindle because you've never seen one before.
When you try to convert your 40 year old neighbor who never rode a bike,
your sedentary sister, and then start toying with the idea of what kind
of bike you could get your 80 year old stepfather to ride on...
$400 isn't too much for a new wheelset!
- I'm putting off my $100 cut and color
- Haven't bought "business casual" in a long time but there's no limit on jerseys
- Retrieve my voice messages from a noncycling friend and hear "Hey Little Lance..."
- Stashing secret money away for a new bike when I don't even know what I'm going to get!
..when you call your best friend from highschool and she gasps "you went on ANOTHER bike ride?"
and you try to explain...
When every road or hill you drive you think, "I've GOTTA try this with my bike."
Or when you use hand signals when you're driving your car. :o
-When you have to clean out the garage because your bikes are getting too croweded and you don't want them scratched (not because you have more bikes:D ).
-When your 4 year old rolls his eyes at you because it is WAY too nice to be in the house playing. Yes, you can take all your animals in the trailer!
-When you've been off your bike for almost 2 months and you finally go on your first ride. I was so excited I didn't put on biking shorts, gloves, cycling shoes or blow up my tires. I rode 4.5 miles on the road on my mtb with almost flat tires and yelled "wahoo" up the first hill I came to by the golf course! I couldn't wipe the smile off my face:p
- when the looks I get while decked out in spandex, climbing into an elevator full of corporate hq 'suits' don't bother me anymore.
- when purchasing a wedding/engagement band, told Mr. Tater, 'it better not stick up and interfere with me pulling on bike gloves!' It doesn't!
- when non-cycling friends ask us over for a cook out and say, 'oh, just be here when Jen gets home from her long ride.'
When you take your dogs for a walk on a trail at the local state park, walk across 3 wooden bridges and all you can think about is how COOL of a mtb trail this would be. At the next intersection there is a bike picture with a red circle and line through it and all you can do is scowl ferousiously that these people just don't get it....
When you try and clean out your closet and figure out why the heck you have more jerseys than shirts for work:p