when the local traffic officer that I've known for 30 years, stops me on the road to make sure I have a drivers lisence

You've grown impervious to others assuming why are not driving a car.

"Must've had a couple of DUIs, poor guy..."

I think that fits under the "You know when you are a hoarder when..." thread.

+1.

that's the boat I am in

On a rare day I drove to work (Dr appointment) there was some debris in the road & I started to signal the " bike" behind me :-) !

When everyone at local bike shop asks how far you rode today knowing its a number higher than 50km. I didn't think I rode that much, but it seems 1200km or better a month is more than 99% of the local bike 'club' members ride in 3 months. That and when you sell your motorcycle and use your scooter as a 'no parking' barrier because you can ride to places faster on a bicycle anyway.

Good point there :)

agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are the only one who cares that the motorcycle people are parking at the bike rack...

The only deer you've hit has been with bike...

You forget your pants and rather than just buying new pants across the street, you bike back home...

...when you had to drive to campus and at the end of the day walk around campus for 20 minutes searching for your bike.

When you eBay your truck to buy another bike

when your commute by car is 35 miles each way, but you sell the car anyway and say "WTH - I can do this every workday, even through Chicago winters".
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that's beyond hardcore

Train helps to cut the biking down to 30-some miles each day.

When your boss has to tell you which days to bring the car to work for errands.

When you walk outside in the Texas summer and say, 'Eh, it's not that bad'.

This actually happened to me... October of 2010. I'll tell the story sometime - it was kinda traumatic!!!

I see that and figure "if I time it right, I should be just fine."

Just take a bag with a towel and a change of clothes and its all good. :)

You've commuted all 5 days and done 100 mile fg ride on Saturday. You're driving your car somewhere on Sunday. You see a couple of cyclists. You feel guilty.

You have more miles on your bike than on your car
You fill gas every few months
You drive just so your car battery doesn't go dead
Your co-workers think you got a DUI and act surprised when you show them a valid license
You've begged a cop to give you a speeding ticket on your bike, and are disappointed when you only get a warning
You wish you could run a red light in your car when there is no traffic on the cross street
Your bike is worth more than your car

You've ridden the last 8 days, only 2 of those being off work, and wonder why you are so tired coming home into a stiff headwind.

There's a number of us here that can relate to 75% of the above!! And I bet real proud of it!!

When your co-workers place bets on which bike you'll arrive on.

That's hardcore. The rest of you can delete your post now.

I know man. chicago winters. I mean if it's anything like iowa winter, that sounds like a really bad idea, unless your route is really diligent on snow plowing and deicing, especially during dark, early hours. you're mad man... you're a madman.

I was coming back from the shop after our 28 hour Repairapalooza and was riding the new Pugsley and was thinking that it will be nice when we get a little snow so I can test it in the environment I purchased it for... thinking that it will be good for everything except those really icy days and then I can use the winter beast with it's IGH and studded tyres or the extrabike when I need to do bigger shopping trips as towing a trailer in the winter is a pain.

I am looking at a power assisted front hub for the extrabike so it can pull itself through bigger drifts.

I have a car that I paid $1.00 for and take really good care of it as it is a nice dependable vehicle that gets used to carry me and my bikes to other places and purchased that for long road trips with my family who thinks that riding 100 km to visit family is a little too far.

A guy that came to the Repairapalooza needeed to replace the entire drive train on his rather new bike and this included both chain rings because he has logged so many miles on his daily commute... I told him that he should mount the chain rings somewhere as very few people ever ride a bike enough to wear out their chain rings and there were high fives all around.

When your so tired after riding your daily 80 mile R/T that you don't have an account on BF????

you move to a new city and prioritize your living location on things like, proximity to bike path if there is one, a minimal ride distance of 5miles, the road conditions of the commute
you get a gym membership next to work to use the shower in the morning (i did try to negotiate the price but it didnt work :( and after 2months i learned they are building shower facilities..doh