You might be a cyclist if.......

[LizS]

You might be a cyclist if....
1. You tell a family of 5 in a crowded mall to "hold their line."
2. Your spouse says "If you buy another bike I'm going to leave you" and
you
think "I guess I'm going to miss him/her."
3. You have more water bottles than you have drinking glasses.
4. You have more cycling jerseys than work shirts.
5. Your cycling jersey IS your work shirt.
6. Your legs are smoother than your wifes.
7. The nicest pair of shoes you own have cleats in the soles.
8. You have defined the 8 stages of roadkill decomposition through daily
observation.
9. You are walking along a street and you signal left.
10.You go to your local store on a bike.
11.You sulk when in cars, on hot days.
12.You sulk when in cars, on cold, windy, snowy days.
13.You get withdrawal symptoms if off the bike for more than a day.
14.When anybody mentions distance you immediately think of how long it
would take to cycle it.
15.You point at pot holes, but you are driving in your car alone.
16.While driving your car you yell at your passenger "Car back" as a
vehicle approaches from behind.
17.Your bike is worth more than your car.
18.You put more miles on your bike than your car.
19.Your hands have a strange tan that looks remarkably similar to the
pattern on your cycling gloves.
20.Weather forecasts can be broken down into 2 categories: good biking
weather, bad biking weather.
21.You put your bicycle in your car, and the value of the total package
increases by a factor of 4 (or better).
22.You find out you are going to have a child and the first thing you
think about is how you will schedule your rides to avoid divorce and still
be
a parent.
23.You spend 2X the money on cycling wear that you do work clothes.
24. You can tell your wife with a straight face that it's too hot to mow
the lawn , then bike off for a century.
25.You dream of winning the lottery and the first thing you think of is
how many/which bikes can I buy?
26.You buy a car based on whether or not a bike will fit in the
trunk/back, with the rear seat folded down.
27.You open your car window and yell out "On your left" when passing
cars on the freeway.
28.You have not one, not two, but three permanent chain ring scars on
your right calf.
29.Your bike sleeps with you in the living or bedroom.
30.You wear a heart rate monitor during sex.
31.You check out all other guys/girls legs to see if they are better
than yours.
32.Your spouse can't take it anymore and takes up cycling.
33.You wonder why a $500 bike has 24 gear ratios, while a $20,000 car or
truck only has 4.
34.You crash...and insist on getting to the bike shop to have your bike
checked out BEFORE going to the hospital.
35.You can't seem to get to work before 8:30am, but you don't have a
problem meeting your buddies at 5:30am for a ride.

[ayermail2]

Let's see....um....

14 oh, that's about 25 miles away...at 12 mph, that would be, um, a little over 2 hours...

15 I have actually done that, and said "Hole!"... even with nobody else in the car, and one time while on the cell phone with my twin (yep - she's getting into cycling now too!)...

16 more so if I'm walking with a group (i.e. in the mall, shopping center etc.. a lot of my girlfriends are into shopping, can't get them on a bike....) and especially if it's recently been a big ride weekend

26 my bike does not fit in my current car, but we are looking to get a "new" car in the next couple of years, and considering space for the bike and for me to sleep in the back on bike tours (I have done 2 straight-thru trips, and one loop trip - really like the loop trip-can sleep in the back of the car instead of in a tent...) On my first century ride Nov 9th, the rental car I got was a Subaru Outback wagon - beautiful car!!! if I take both wheels off the bike, it can actually stand upside down in the back. with one wheel off, it had to lay down, with one seat folded forward to accomodate the handle bars...

29 my bike lived in the living room up until last week when my husband put a garage door on my carport... now it has it's very own rack in my garage -- it looks so "official" that the first thing I said to dh after he put it was that it looks like a real cyclist lives here!

[Hill Nelly]

Hi. I've finally joined up here on the forum after much browsing. Lots of fun viewing responses from you gals. Learning alot,too.
Anyway, want to say that I can really relate to a few of these:

#8. The road kill thing. When you can't see it and you know it's there and "the smell approacheth" - yuk. I commute to work and I find it takes a few days for "that" to go away (if the highway dept is on the ball). Still, that spot will be marked in my memory for the season.

#14. Yes, when in the car I am always on the look for how long it would take me to ride this stretch... Is the road pot-holed, what's on the roadway (like gravelly junk that would cause a flat) extra points for hills and how can I make this a loop I could do from home.

#29. My bike is fully housebroken, and it would be unthinkable for me to keep her "out there" without me! Her spot it right against the wall outside the bedroom. Her first words are always, "take me for a ride."

Hillnelly