Best Bike Buying Advice, EVER!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Cheez, when I lived in NYC I had to pay for basic cable in order to watch other people having sex. You got free entertainment!

Oh YEAH????...well when *I* lived in NYC they hadn't INVENTED cable tv yet. Most people didn't even have color tv yet. Or cordless phones. Or even push-button phones. Or digital watches and clocks. Or cds, DVDs, no video tapes or cassette players, or even 8-track tapes! or personal computers, internet, email, fax machines, microwave ovens, personal copiers, Walkmans (it was only transistor radios then), boom boxes, word processors (anyone remember typewriters & carbon paper?) or skateboards, roller blades...credit cards?- only for rich folk and executives.... oh I can go on and on but I'm feeling ancient at this point. (and yet somehow still hot!)

p.s. speaking of exhibitionists, I would just like to point out that Madonna is a 50-year-old woman who no doubt has an Amex card. And she could probably snap Smurf's friend in half. (She could probably snap most guys in half.)

First she'd adopt him, then snap him in half.

[Crankin]

Oy. This is making me laugh.
Re: how we feel about ourselves compared to how we looked/felt earlier in our lives.
I recently came across a family picture, taken in 1997. I was in the middle of my "sick of going to the gym" phase and half heartedly working out. My husband played tennis and vigorously declined any other sort of physical activity.
I saw a 40 something guy with a big belly, waiting for a heart attack. When I looked at myself, I saw a perimenopausal woman who was getting pretty wide, despite the nice hair cut and stylish jeans.
I showed the picture to my husband who said, "Geez, we look a lot better now!" And then we both said we wished we had started cycling a lot sooner!