It's a nice change from the other personality type I've been running into on craigslist lately... the lonely bike guy.

He wants to bike, but he's got a wife and kids. So instead he spends time buying bike pieces and upgrading his bike and selling bike pieces to appease the wife...

When I go pick up said pieces... Lonely bike guy is soooo happy to be able to talk bikes that he keeps me talking for an hour or two.

I picked up some shifters on Sunday from a lonely bike guy. He wants to go biking with me this Sunday! He heard I had a titanium mountain bike frame, so he couldn't sleep all night and.... Ordered himself a titanium mountain bike frame the next morning.

He seemed like a nice guy, his wife & kid were right there... but oh wow, do some people just wanna talk bikes!

The old man who lives across the street from me will quite often run and get his bike when I bring mine out. He'll then start pumping up its tire, or fixing something on it... or he'll go start fiddling with the bike rack on his son's car... He seems to be another lonely bike guy. I never actually see him on a bike, he just pulls it out as a prop when I come out with a bike.