I like mountain biking better than road cycling. Despite that, my first bike purchase (post BMX era) was a road bike because some of my friends bought road bikes. I traded that road bike in for a mountain bike a year later. Since then my wife grew fonder of road cycling, and she eventually bought one. I bought a road bike for the second time ten years after my wife purchased her's.

I think the phrase, "you don't ride hard if you don't crash" is ridiculous. I don't think I ever heard a roadie say this, but I think it is an excuse for those that are less coordinated. It's like saying you don't run fast enough if you don't trip a lot.

I have mountain pedals on my road bike. I do plan to purchase some road pedals in the near future.

I like riding on MUPs, and I don't get why people seem to look down at people that do. I would rather have someone look down at me for that, rather than be looking down at me on the ground after just being hit by a car.

I have two road crashes, once on a BMX bike and once on a mountain bike. The incident on the BMX bike sent me over the bars. I landed on my back and slid down the road without wearing a shirt. The doctor couldn't get all the tar out as he tried to clean the rather large wound on my back. The second came after some idiot didn't check the bike lane before walking his bike into the bike lane (he had a red light). I couldn't avoid him (bike lane had curbs on both sides) and ran directly into his rear wheel. I managed to unclip, and get my feet over the bars as my momentum carried me forward. I managed to get by with scraped up hands (no gloves) and a popped tire. I guess I learned from the first incident not to land on my back.

I look at the ass of most woman while I am riding on the MUP even when I am with my wife.

I feel less and less comfortable wearing lycra as the years pass even though my body hasn't changed much over the years.