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

[mimitabby]

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

You might be right

[Triskeliongirl]

You consider spendng $325 on a saddle as I am now......... I have it bad for the Brooks Swallow

[KnottedYet]

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.

[Kitsune06]

...when you buy a helmet in dark grey and black to match your nose ring (titanium and hemetite) and plugs.

[KnottedYet]

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.

[salsabike]

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

[Bad JuJu]

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.

[Bluetree]

... 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!!!

[limewave]

. . . 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

[JamamaSpoke]

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...

[jeannierides]

When you look at your new pink wheels and think "I really *need* that pink saddle bag."

[Cassandra_Cain]

You are convinced your vastly uneven, but hard earned bike tan is actually tres chic

[Cassandra_Cain]

Everyone you know, and even some strangers, begin virtually every conversation with - 'so what mountain did you ride up this time?'

[Cassandra_Cain]

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~

[limewave]

. . . 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.