When the only reason in the world to wake up at 5:25 AM and for first time of your life you’re consistent waking up early is to go out and ride before work.
When all your best friends “casually” are bikers too.
When your 4 years daughter do not like to kiss you when you get back from a ride “because you’re a little to hot”, but your boy says, “it doesn’t matters to me, I do like the smell of wet soil”
When you feel lazy and overweighed if you don’t go out or rolls for two days in a row.
Would I get made fun of if I wore my Camelbak Lobo around my house, out in public etc, even when I'm not on my bike? PFFT! It keeps water really cold 😄 i wear it to the library to study, out on walks, hikes, ridin' (of course), to the gym 😄
Probably more to do with being tech-obsessed than riding too much.....but being able to glance at a bike from across the street and know the complete specs of its drivetrain, frame, wheelset and so on probably means you need to stop reading the velo-[censored] so much.
Checking out people's quads in the street. "Are they bigger than mine!?"
Feeling homocidal when you see someone drop glass in the street.
Reading Ordnance Survey maps instead of novels/magazines for fun.
When riding in a car, you visualize what cadence and gears you'd be in if you were on your bike, how much lean to this corner, when to attack... so on.
On second note, this is probably a result of riding too much as well.
Last night, when Barnes and Noble closed, my friend and I rode arround the stip mall plotting a midnight crit that circled in front of the stores and arround behind.
When all of your street clothes have sagging butts and knees and all of your street shoes have this tell-tale grove worn into the front part of the heel (those of you who wear street shoes to bike know what I mean) plus big scuff marks where you bring the pedal round to put it in place to take off (that manoever probably has some fancy cycling technical name, but I don't know it).
When you see your friend's eyes glaze over and gradually roll back in their heads whenever you begin to fill them in on your latest cycling exploits (why don't they think it's important, too?).
When you go to visit your Mom for two weeks and by the time you leave, there are no less than 5 bikes (of all different shapes and sizes) in the garage that used to hold nothing but a lonely Infinity.
Spend WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much on a hitch mount//hitch/adaptor/lock for your car cos your daughter complains that she hates being a passenger with her legs wrapped around her neck cos of that dammed bike in the back!!
When you recognize people by the bike they are riding, not their face. When you slow down in your car to admire someone else riding on the road and then proceed to tell your wife every detail about the type of bike the person was riding. When your neighbors make jokes about your cycling apparel, yet you don't care because you are totally comfortable with it. When you wash your bike clothes more than your work clothes.
... when you don't have a TV or DVD player and you buy one to watch a 4 hour 2003 Tour de France DVD...
...when this forum is your default home page in your browser...
...when you drive everywhere with your bike (and shoes, jersey, helmet, HRM, knicks) in the boot of your car just incase you have time for a quick ride...
...when you want a new bike (want, not need) and you explore the possibility of buying a bike shop...
Originally posted by stone61cm You race walk people in the mall without realizing it
on a similar note for mountain bikers ... walking quickly through busy pedestrian traffic, darting in between people, plotting your next move like it's technical singletrack
