you may be a bike commuter if...

[Toni]

ditto

GREAT list.....couldn't of said it better myself!

My one item to add: Saving $80.00 a month on garage parking.

I just noticed that I have ridden 331 miles on my commuter bike since Sept. 9 of this year. I ride to work 3 days a week and I LOVE it!!!!!

[crazycanuck]

I commute but I never see more than 4 people on my ride in the morning & not tons of folks on the way home.

Waking up at 415am is normal.

You no longer care about the Freo Dr (i'll let wikipedia explain this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle_doctor) & battle the headwind, sidewind and 30+ temps.

YOu can look up at the pelicans on the lights without swaying on the path.. (i try but not always successful)

YOu feel guitly taking the train & stare at the bike path thinking you should be there..

You look forward to the sections of the cycle path with trees...

You think about your bike while at work & hope no one has touched it.

When looking for a job, the place must have a shower.

c

[light_sabe_r]

I'd like to add my own,

Been to an Entire breakfast meeting in Lycra with the Director, supervisors, Post Docs and Students because the shower was taken by one of the other commuters.

You make multiple trips to the basement on your breaks to make sure noone's messed with your bike in the lock up.

Find yourself abusing cars passing into the bike lane when you're in a car yourself

You Get the urge to RACE when a bike passes you in a car

You think your boyfriend is insane when he WALKS to work for run training... (even if it's only 5km away)

[Geonz]

== You *do* have four bicycles so one always works, even though the bike shop guy usually fixes your bike over the lunch hour.

== You've put your helmet on and then remembered, " I'm taking the car. It's 750 miles."

-- Ice scraper? What's an ice scraper?

[Kitsune06]

==Your water cooler talk with fellow commuters details near-accidents of the morning, totally nonchalont, while co-workers look on and go "You must be nuts!"

==It's a joke in the office that when the manager wants you first thing in the morning, the receptionist says "She's up in the shower- she'll be right down!"

==Clif bars + espresso Hammer gel = Breakfast!

[mimitabby]

your coworkers always ask "Is that YOUR fancy bike upstairs?"

or despite the weather, they ask "Did you ride in to work today?"

[lph]

Hee - one of my (now ex-) colleagues had a bike WAY more expensive than mine, and he used to bring it into the exercise/weight room while he was showering, then took it up to his office for the rest of the day.

I hid it once, just wheeled it round the corner while he was in the shower. Poor guy came tearing out of the mens locker room 2 minutes later wearing only a towel. He had heard the ticking of his expensive drive train from UNDER WATER.

So sweet, just like a new mother