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[madscot13]

Do you ever find yourself just staring at your bike and thinking how beautiful it is?

I do all of the time. I started bringing it inside with me when I am at school and just staring at it instead of studying.

[indysteel]

I don't do it as much now, but I did for a while. She "slept" in my house for a few days until I finally put her in the garage. Even then, I would go out to the garage and visit her almost every night. After I put new wheels on her in February, I would stop to stare at her almost every time on my way into the house. And if I haven't ridden her in a few days because of rain or whatnot, I find myself patting her saddle and apologizing to her as if her feelings are hurt.

OMG. It's really embarrassing seeing this in print. I love her though. She's my baby.

[alpinerabbit]

As I did when I was a kid, I almost took mine to my bedroom when it was spankin new. Yes, they are an object of beauty.

[Trekhawk]

LOL - yep. My beauty is right here in the study so I get to chat here at TE and oggle my bike at the same time

[rij73]

Yep, I love my bike... It usually hangs out in the living room right next to the piano while I'm teaching lessons! I think my piano students find it bizarre...

[teigyr]

Our bikes are either in the breakfast nook or in the living room! I love my bike but since I think it looks like an exploded orange pinata, I look at it as a whole rather than the color.

[Jenn]

Yes, as a newbie I stare at mine and think I need this $$ and I need this$$ and I want this$$ good think Mother's Day is coming!!

[fultzie]

My roommate and I split a 500 sq-ft 1-br apartment (I sleep in what they call the "living room" in the apt. description!!) and between the two of us we have 8 bikes. So we're pretty much staring at them all the time.

My bikes usually live in my room, so I stare at them a lot (his bikes live 2 in the hallway, stacked, and 2 in the back entry, stacked, because he got stuck with the smaller room. we have two non-functioning old commuters in the dead-door stairway down the back).

But yes-- especially when one of my bikes is up in the workstand (in the middle of the kitchen) I'll sit and stare at it for a while. The mtb even more so after a cleaning... I'll sit and think "wow, it looks like a whole new bike now!" Plus it's in the stand more often!

And I definitely talk to them. Even his bikes, which don't have names (well, I've named them-- much to his annoyment ). When I have to move one without riding it, when I have to take the wheel off to put it in the car, if i'm taking one for a ride and not the other, etc etc etc

[madscot13]

Yeah I can't help it anymore. i don't know what to do. It isn't even riding the bike and I get all happy.

I have to go. I just polished it up with some armorall wipes. I have to stare at it some more.

[Mr. Bloom]

Since Silver is unlikely to respond, I'll tell on her.

I bought her Madone while she was in the hospital following her wreck. It sat in the family room for about three months while she was unable to ride!

Now, my Saris bike rack is not good enough...her bike must ride in the car!

I don't think she's named it though

Hmmmm...I wonder who she loves more?

[tprevost]

I love my bikes, they are on a wall stand in the living room; I refer to them as the 'artwork'

[Zen]

In an effort to become one with my bike I recently brought it into my bedroom.
I think it worked.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

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[Mr. Bloom]

Lisa! How did you get that camera in our bedroom!

[Zen]

I like it