You know you've gone over to the dark side...

[mimitabby]

YOu know you've gone over to the dark side when you concede that $600 is an entry-level bike!


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[Kitsune06]

...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!

[Cassandra_Cain]

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...

[Cassandra_Cain]

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

[Kitsune06]

...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.

[DebW]

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.

[Kitsune06]

...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 face.

[Kitsune06]

...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.

[mimitabby]

You know you're on the dark side when almost all of the dish sized towels
in the house have black stains on them.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

When.....you wear your biking clothes sometimes on days even when you know you won't be doing any riding.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

When.... You find yourself considering the aerodynamic qualities of even the "regular" clothes you are buying.

[DebW]

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.

[pooks]

YOu know you've gone over to the dark side when you concede that $600 is an entry-level bike!


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I believe you might be talking about somebody I, um, am. LOL

[tygab]

When you're going on a 40 mile ride and you ride 10 miles each way to get there.

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.

oh and to keep with the theme...
when your kayak hasn't even seen the light of day this whole season

[Kitsune06]

... 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.