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You know you're addicted when...
You Know You're Addicted to Cycling When...
You Know You're Addicted to Cycling When...
Your surgeon tells you need a heart valve replacement and you ask if you have a choice between presta and schrader.
A Power Bar starts tasting better than a Snickers.
You wear your heart monitor to bed to make sure you stay within your target zone during any extracurricular activities.
The funeral director tells you "NO!" you can't ride your Cannondale in the funeral procession, even if you keep your headlight on.
You experience an unreasonable envy over someone who has bar end extenders longer than yours.
Housing
You know you're addicted when...
... you see pictures of a new home, and it has a deck, and you think, "Nice space for bike maintenance"
Funny: You know you are a cyclist, when...
You know you are a cyclist, when...
You pull up on the steering wheel of your car to go over a speed bump.
You see a fit, tanned, lycra-clad young woman ride by, and the first thing you check out is her bike...
You find yourself rapidly switching across four lanes of traffic to check out bikes on the back of a car...
You spend your time at work on the internet watching the weather ...
You mourn for your old junker bike when you get a new one.
You're driving you scope out the rock formations on the side of the road and think " I could ride that..."
Ride Mars!
You know you're addicted when...
... you see this article and wonder what the riding will be like:
Stage Hucking
You know you're addicted when...
... you happen to get amazing tickets to a show and end up front row. Checking out the stage directly in front, you think about the challenge of hucking off there without landing in the audience.
Shopping Trials
You know you're addicted when...
... you're walking round the shops with the GF and notice the display tables & cases are all different heights and cramped together without much room between them. You begin to ponder how hard the display would be to ride through/around/over.