heh. i'm pretty on-again-off-again, due to factors including but not limited to my own motivation. my main problem is too much variation; i deal well but not quickly with change.

i don't know if i'm any help for your specific situation. i try to think like a biker - but i don't mean to the extent of posing; i don't call myself one if i'm not doing it. i don't say i bike everywhere when it's growing cobwebs. but i keep the fact that i like doing it, i do it when i can, and i'd like to do it, in the front of my mind most of the time. i find that makes me a little more flexible to jump on any openings or opportunities that come up, and use them as a toe-hold to get back into it, i guess because i don't have to talk myself back into thinking like a person who bikes. when i started this contract in mid-july, i hadn't biked anywhere since the spring, and i knew up front that i wouldn't be able to even start thinking about it until mid-august sometime. but i guess i felt kind of like yogi berra: i ain't in no slump. i just ain't hitting.

even thinking about bike commuting makes you different from whatever-it-is percent of your fellow north americans. and i dunno, i find that keeping a pretty low profile about it in my 3-d life means that i don't have any pedestals but my own to fall off; i don't get all wound up in the whole image-to-maintain kind of thing. that works for me because i really don't like that feeling of subliminal pressure and living up to anyone's expectations but mine. some people might be more motivated by the opposite approach, i know.