My parents bought me a bike when I went to college, a Schwinn World Sport road bike. Didn't ride it much at school because Berkeley's not a particularly bike-friendly campus, but I did ride it in my first triathlon. Did pretty well but rather than continuing and improving, I decided to focus on law school and beer.

Fast forward 8 years. I'm fat and slow and unhappy. I decide to take my tax refund (it was big since I hadn't made much money the year before) and buy a road bike. I commuted to work on it, entered a few local triathlons, and generally recaptured the fun of just riding around and soaking in the scene.

Now, although I'm nominally training for an olympic distance tri in July, I'm finding that I'm spending way too much time on the bike because it's just too much dang fun compared to the work of running and the boredom of lap swimming.