When I first showed up to the weekly club rides with an old bike, they hardly paid any attention. To them, I was just some old guy who pulled his old bike out of the garage and aired up the tires to get back in shape. Eventually, someone noticed that I was riding a different bike almost every week and asked "just how many bikes do you have?" Now, when I show up, they'll ask what I'm riding today and act interested while I ramble about the bike's history. The shop where we start and end the rides even started hosting a classic bike show after the last ride of the season.