I see this thread is a tad "stale," but ... what o' that?

I ... AM A SPINNING JUNKIE.

Now, not so much so that on gorgeous bright spring days such as this, I'd rather be in the basement staring at the stairs in front of me, grinding away chanting "Om Tara tuttare ture soha." But! Almost that bad.

I have used my 9-year-old Cycleops wind trainer and my 13-year-old twelve speed to lose 40 pounds over the last two years, by intervals as well as plain old 40-minutes-at-78%-hrm. Sometimes I get up at 5am to ride 80% for 30-35 minutes before eating anything, a trick a lot of pro ironbuilders use to jump their metabolic fires from fasting/glycogen to that stored stuff (and seems to work for me).

Or, I just want to listen to the beat:

Psychotrance 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 (Moonshine Music) and Hard Desert Trance (same distributor)

No: traffic/stop signs/pot holes/road rage/headwinds/rain/flat tires

Sometimes I just want to concentrate on the Void! "OM Tara ... "

Anybody else?!