-You pass the flagpole at mile 2 of your commute and, depending on which direction the flags are waving, decide to stay on the exposed riverside path or head inland to the surface streets.

-You get cranky when warmer weather brings out more cycling commuters on the MUP. After all, you started cycling to avoid congestion, thankyouverymuch!

-Your SO has resigned him/herself to the fact that instead of checking out attractive people on the street, you check out every bike locked up around the city, and sometimes do double-takes.

-You keep finding tube patches scattered at the bottom of all your bags.

When you learn how to wrench because dropping your bike off for service would take too much time away from your commute.

When you travel on business, you buy a $60 bike on Craigslist and expense the $60 as "Alternative car rental and parking-bicycle" and your boss approves the report.

When school is out and the traffic load is a relief. When school is back in and you pray that "Safe Routes to School" would get all of these people off the road....

..if, in the horrible event that you had to drive to work, the "did you ride today" question gets a response like "WHAT'S IT TO YOU, BUB!!!" or something like that.

...if the muscles in your calves break the line of being attractive, and are just plain gross.

...if your ride is long enough that it warrants eating during it.

...if it takes you just as long to recover and get dressed post ride as it does for your coworkers to drive in.

...if you've ever had to call in late due to a broken chain.

corollary: when the weather truly sucks, you're happy because you know you'll have those trails pretty much to yourself.

super awesome!!!

i just remembered, when i worked on the railroad, a few people kept bicycles in the crew-room at the "away from home lodging".

When you commute in and turn around and go directly back home... on your day off, just because you miss it.

...When you're driving a car and you feel compelled to shift down when you come to stops or go up hills.

Your hi-vis jersey is peppered with stains from various flats you've fixed.

Your hi-vis jersey is peppered with stains from the many insects you've hit.

And you can tell their species when you rinse the jersey out.

When you're looking for a new place to live and refuse to move anywhere closer to work.

When you start looking for longer routes to work...or you take a day off to go on a "reconnaissance ride"


(Shhhhh- don't tell on me...that's what I did today!)

When you can tell their species by FEEL, when they hit the back of your throat.

- You "commute" to group rides on weekends rather than drive to the starting location.
- You arrive at the starting location for a group ride and are the only one to show up because the forecast called for a 50% chance of rain.
- Your solo rides are at a faster pace than group rides because you're in so much better shape than the weekend-only riders.
- You've got several bikes so you can just grab one of the backups if your main commuter has a flat or other mechanical issue.
- You ride more miles on your bike annually (monthly, weekly) than your car or truck.
- You only have to change the oil in your car/truck once a year, whether it needs it or not.

LOL, that's too funny................ and I've done that.

Yep. Been there, done that, got the jersey!

I am at that point in my riding.... do I take longer routes home? Or just call off sick and go for a long ride??

doing a 62mile round trip commute three times a week, and feeling like a slacker
even when you have to leave at 3am to be to work by 5am
(yeah I am a slacker)

If your office decor includes a bike on an ultimate stand!!!

Awesome.

I'll probably drive to work at least once this weekend because I picked up a junker 3-speed with pretty good wheels. (No clue what it is; it's obviously been repainted, and has no markings that I can find except the SN and the (working) 333 hub.) Little bit of surface rust, and they need to be trued anyway, so I'll take them apart between now and then, clean them up, and then haul them to work to relace in my spare time.

Getting the other junker (Sheffield Free Spirit) ready for them will take a bit longer; I just primed the chainguard and fenders, and will probably strip the frame over the next few days, but I haven't quite settled on a color scheme yet. I'm thinking blue with Scotchlite yellow pinstriping since blue and gold are the local high school colors, and what paint it had was metallic blue anyway.

Drove DH nuts swiveling my head at every half-dressed hottie (and not-so-hottie) hammering in the drops. Then he figured out that I am reading down tubes...

Most of this applies to me, except that I'm still slow in spite of all the miles I ride.

As scroca pointed out when I posted this in the "How was your commute today" thread, it fits for this thread, too.

... if on Saturday, you ride to the gas station three villages over, with an empty fuel can strapped to the rack, getting gasoline for the weed-whacker.

if your landmarks on your journey are the potholes on the road

you sell your car....