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

this happened today... i had to take a bus in and and out of CBD. my pre-pay bus card scanned and said "pay driver", so i did. it's been a while since i used the card, so i figured it was just out of credit. while i was in the city i put $20 on the card, got on a bus to get home, and again it scanned and said "pay driver". wtf??? what i found out later in the day... if you don't use the card for a year or so, it gets "red listed" and they have to manually re-enable it.

You ride 1600 miles a month? That's really impressive.

....when management offers you a company car and you politely say "no, thank you" and ask for a raise instead.

I had this wonderful dream once and woke up just when the boss was about to give me the raise!

holy crap! you ride 70 miles every single workday? 12 months a year? in chicago?

that is indeed extremely hardcore. how do you find the time?

i ride 30 miles a day, 12 months a year, in chicago, and i thought i was hardcore, but not anymore.

One the one-hour, car, road trip leaves you saddle sore. That's something that doesn't happen on your bike.

+1 to this, even in 107 temps.

When your work calendar looks so odd because all your offsite meetings are on one day - the day you plan to drive instead of ride.

This is OT, but you need to tell us about this. It sounds like an interesting concept.... maybe not so much fun for the wrenchers.

OTOH, may it is on topic."You know you're hardcore if someone mentions a Repairapalooza and you have a vague idea what they are talking about."

...when duct tape is also used as a band-aid.

You ride only for commuting (can walk to other needed locations), at a medical clinic (for unrelated check-up) get put into one of those "gowns", the doc walks in, takes one look at your legs hanging out, and says, "Oh, you ride a bicycle, don't you?"

Reid

you are hardcore. just because someone else is insanely hardcore doesn't make you any less hardcore.

To paraphrase the weather related posts;

You know you're hardcore when you realize that a forecast of rain is not enough to make you not ride. At least, say, 5 out of 6 times you'll be disappointed because the rain went somewhere else or it didn't show up when you would have been riding.

And, as a matter of fact, I wore out a front set of chainrings once. Just little tiny 'nipples' was all that was left. But I didn't save them because it didn't occur to me that that was so extraordinary.

Just now getting back to this thread. My commute is just about always multimodal since I sold my car. Leave house and ride 10 miles, train ride, ride 5 more miles on another bike to office. Repeat in reverse on way home.

I sometimes ride the whole way from my house to my office. That ends up being around a 75 mile roundtrip with the route I take. That takes me a good couple hours each way. Plus my route takes me through Maywood when I ride the whole way, which I prefer to do in the wee hours of the morning on the way in and in the daylight of afternoon on the way home.

There is no way around that it takes longer to multimodal commute than drive, except maybe during some crazy snowstorms slamming the traffic on the tollways. I'm just a lot happier riding than driving everyday.

When you can't close both hands around your thighs because the muscles are too big.

When you haven't ridden the Metro in weeks and feel great about it. :)