How many of you..

[LadyinWhite]

Drive your friends crazy by working your bike into way too many conversations? You know what I mean: "yea yea yea, that's nice, glad little Jimmy got a B+ in math, yes, I'm sure you are very proud. Did I mention I brought my bike to the shop today, that FD is really acting up and I really think it needs to be upgraded from the stock 2203 but my wrench wants me to give it another 1000 miles and then upgrade the works: shifters etc."

[mimitabby]

lol, well, yeah. maybe I do that sometimes

[Thistle]

guilty

[East Hill]

Er, I try to hang out with other people who understand the obsession!

Then we just have to see who gets to talk first.

East Hill

[doc]

Also guilty

[Bad JuJu]

Hah! DH and I were visiting friends over the weekend, and I talked so much about my bike that Mrs. Friend let me drag her (on her single-speed cruiser) along on an 8-mile ride. Doesn't sound like much to most of us here, but imagine doing it on a dinosaur like that. My friend was a trooper, though, and even got up and did it again the next day! In fact when we left, she was talking to DH about getting a road bike of her own. She's in trouble now!

[spokewench]

I usually avoid talking too much about bike stuff with non-bikeys. They just don't get it and sometimes I think it intimidates ladies who don't ride when I say something like - oh, I just rode 450 miles in 6 days - so I just don't usually go there.

but, I do have a lot of bikey friends so sometimes the conversation can get sort of one sided. I have a girlfriend who got a new boyfriend last year (not a bikey). SOmetimes,I feel sorry for him and will try to talk golf with him to give him a break.

[Pedal Wench]

Went to dinner last night after spin class with about 12 of my cycling club members. Someone mentioned how they hate going to eat with non-bikey people. Personally, I just avoid the situation

[SouthernBelle]

Actually, It's kinda fun impressing people, who have no clue, with my 'huge' distances.

OK so I'm evil.

[IFjane]

Guilty here!

But SO and I have migrated to having mostly bikey friends so it is not so much of an issue socially....however, here at work I am the ONLY bikey person, so everyone else has to deal with it. Wait! Maybe that's why no one stops by my office any more.....

[IFjane]

Actually, It's kinda fun impressing people, who have no clue, with my 'huge' distances.

OK so I'm evil.

Belle - it IS fun. My director asked me once how far I rode the day before. I said, "only 30 miles." She was shocked I went so far.....and then I told her that was a short ride...(evil is good sometimes!)

[bouncybouncy]

haha...i post pics on a site for sharing with friends and family...my Mom not-so-subtly told me

"you can only look as SOOO many mtbike pics!"

she does really support my interest!!!! I am trying to post more "interesting" pics on there now...more scenery and macros just to break up the monotony...

[GLC1968]

Guilty. But I do try to tone it down around certain people.

My mom wonders why I never have much of an update on my life anymore. It's because she doesn't want to hear about biking and well...what else is there?!

Actually, there are a lot of guys here at work who bike, so we tend to get all going on some biking-related topic in the breakroom and when we come down off our 'high' most everyone else has left out of dis-interest!

[Susan126]

Put me down as guilty too. And like southernbelle and IFjane just said about "distances" . . . that always grabs their attention! For example my sister called me one weekend afternoon and asked me what I was up to and I told her that she had caught me as I was leaving for a short bike ride because I had to be somewhere later that afternoon. She asked, "Oh only a short ride like 5 or 10 miles?" And I said, "No a short 25 - 30 mile ride." She couldn't believe it.

[Mimosa]

Guilty. But I think most non-bike people I talk to listen out of politeness not out of interest