You Know You Are A Cyclist When.....

1) You put on your jeans and they already have the right leg rolled up.

2) You do laundry when you don't have any more clean bike shorts.

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Permalink Reply by Tony L on November 16, 2012 at 4:32pm

You say "On your left" when you walk past someone.

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Permalink Reply by John Farris on November 17, 2012 at 2:38am

I hope you're using food-safe oil on those shprockets, JH?!! If you do this often, you might look into it. We use food-safe greases and oils in my plant at work, where we manufacture food and drink bottles.

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Permalink Reply by 1s20gdv3auw5h on November 17, 2012 at 2:58am

Ha!! My bike does sleep in my room! But not with me. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Laura C on November 17, 2012 at 3:13am

HA! Or when you have no idea when your license expires since you never drive!

Julie Hochstadter said:

your drivers license expires and you have to motivate to get to the DMV.

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Permalink Reply by John Farris on November 19, 2012 at 1:23am

I just spoke (no pun) with the daughter of a church friend yesterday, back from Portland, OR who reports that there are local bikers there who are proud to have never had a driver's license.

She also said that there are at least one of every character from "Portlandia" in existence in Portland, and when she tries to bike over there, they yell at her for being too slow and getting in the way! Yeeesh!

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Permalink Reply by yai danche on November 26, 2012 at 2:44pm

you can push yourself up onto the saddle without assistance of the curb or setting your saddle super low. bonus points if you can do the one where you jog next to your bike and mount. bonus bonus points if you're mounting a tall bike (that you built yourself of course).

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on November 29, 2012 at 6:20am

When you drive and park your fiance's car, and although you remember to put money in the meter machine and print out the ticket, you inevitably place the ticket face down... and get a $60 parking ticket.

And on your drive home on LSD you have no idea what the speed limit is so you drive 40mph, which feels so fast since it's almost double what you could ever ride.