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 Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on March 23, 2014 at 1:12am

How to you update those settings to have it default? Mine seems to always default to driving.

Rob D. said:

* Your Google map app defaults to bike directions.

* When you hear "kryptonite" your first thought is not Superman - unless superman is imprisoned by a u-lock.

*You feel that the Crazy8 scene from Breaking Bad is an appropriate punishment to all bike thieves.

*It's 5 below, wind chill factor of 10, several inches of accumulation and your thought remains: "Which bike path do I take?"

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Permalink Reply by Bert Travis on March 23, 2014 at 9:27am

When the only muscletone on your body is in your legs :)

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Permalink Reply by S on March 23, 2014 at 4:17pm

The android app will default to giving directions using the last method you used, so if you switch to biking, it'll use biking the next time you get directions. In google now, you can hit the settings button on the top right corner of the card and specify whether you want biking, walking, driving, or transit directions. I don't think there is anyway to do this on the desktop but there is a way to save a search in chrome and firefox to get something like this.

Julie Hochstadter said:

How to you update those settings to have it default? Mine seems to always default to driving.

Rob D. said:

* Your Google map app defaults to bike directions.

* When you hear "kryptonite" your first thought is not Superman - unless superman is imprisoned by a u-lock.

*You feel that the Crazy8 scene from Breaking Bad is an appropriate punishment to all bike thieves.

*It's 5 below, wind chill factor of 10, several inches of accumulation and your thought remains: "Which bike path do I take?"

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Permalink Reply by 1s20gdv3auw5h on March 26, 2014 at 3:12pm

Yehaa! Finally road in the sun today!!

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Permalink Reply by Robert Underwood on March 26, 2014 at 4:33pm

when all your interesting conversations take place on the chainlink and not with your coworkers, and the only bike conversation you can get out them is when they ask you how your ride was, which ends when you say the short version of what you posted on the thread "i rode today, did you" earlier that morning.

when you forget to pack things like your tie, your shoes, your pants (yes I forgot my pants once), and your belt.

and... when your coworkers think you like your hair looking sorta wet and messy and that you style it that way every morning with things some gel and a comb, not a helmet and your sweat.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Phearson on March 26, 2014 at 4:56pm

This. I've done all of this - well, somehow I've always remembered my shoes. The one time I forgot my pants was pleasant enough, fortunately - I just got back on my bike and slugged it home. I more frequently forget my socks and the belt. There have been more than a few times when I've needed to cinch my pants up with binder clips (another byproduct of bike commuting = wardrobe transitions).

Robert Underwood said: