Non-Star-Trek fans need not apply. With my helmet, bike shades, Take-a-Look mirror attached to the shades, and helmet-mounted light, I think I must look like one of the Borg (don't forget the folding bike... gotta be a Trek analogy in there somewhere). Anybody else get that feeling? The problem is that looking at my get up, I think others are about as likely to start bike commuting as willingly join the Borg.

LOL! Just spit coffee on my computer!

I thought becoming a roadie/commuter was very much like being assimilated... without the wires and nanobots in the neck. Now if I can only get one of those sensor/detector eye-flashlights like the Borg have. Maybe Nashbar has them. Performance, perhaps?

Maybe you should have posted this in A&S. We are the Vehicular Cyclists. I am Six-Of-One, Half-A-Dozen-Of-Another. You will take the lane. Resistance is futile!

Kidding. I joke because I love.

Did you forget Star Trek never loses to the borg? Make it so -- that's more compelling.

Why am I having thoughts of Warf saying "RAMMING SPEED! It is a good day to die!".

I wear a Bell Stratos helmet from some decades ago. It is white, and has a tinted shield that comes down over the eyes. I was waiting at a stop light last summer and come guys a couple cars back were yelling at me, something about Star Wars.

Shimano=Borg. I like the way they needlessly STIed MTB shifting now, I wonder when they bring back ashtabula cranks, to put both BB and crank manufacturers out of business,(I bet somebody's gonna tell me it's already been done.)

After our ride the other night i was wondering how long it would take for this to come up on the boards...

and for those of you who haven't seen him in full commuting gear, he puts Jean-Luc to shame, to shame i say!

A true Borg would also ride with

-- voice activated mike
-- wireless transmitter to loudspeaker to commute with cagers
-- rear camera with quick activation button
-- front camera with quick activation button
-- quick button activatation of standard messages over loudspeaker
"Your's Tickets in the mail"
"Get off the sidewalk"
"Wrong way bozo"
"On your left"
"On your right"
police siren
semi airhorn

and lots of flashing lights

I want one of those beams that can destroy anything in my path. No more right hooks!

Yehehehehe. Just the other morning I was at the beginning of my commute in my white helmet, amber lenses on the glasses, Hot Head Primal jersey, red bibs, leg warmers (already in the low 30's here some mornings) and four blinkies, two front, two back. This dude rolls by me dressed like Kurt Cobain circa 1990 (it's dark, too) and all I could think was that he was a Romulan, fully cloaked and I was the Defiant lighting up his sensors.

The nerd jokes may now commence.

Time to get a new helmet.

Of ccourse the great irony is we are actually becoming un-assililated by bike commuting.

I am with you 100% on that sti thing Chris. What a bunch of crap. Of course, maybe that is what roadies were saying about STI as opposed to downshifters.

I heard that HID lights can be converted easily. I think they sell kits on ebay !

Nah. I want one that opens a tempural vortex, so I can arrive at work before I left home.

(First Contact)

There was this Shebeest jacket I was looking at a while back that I really wanted because, with my long, black winter tights, it would have looked significantly like a Star Trek uniform.

But...it was red. I'm not so sure I want to be a redshirt. *ponder*

Nah! Who wan'ts to be in command like that? Besides, it's always the nameless red and blue shirts who perish needlessly from episode to episode whenever there's an away mission! BUT, if you come to the gold side you will all but perish only to be brought back again and again because of your loving and devoted fans!

Come! Come to Engineering!

Yeah, I certainly would not want to look like Engisn Will B. Deadsoon.

A ha first laugh of the day "Ensign Will B. Deadsoon" that gave me a good one.
My helmet is super nerdy. I have a headlamp (the kind with the straps that people use in the wilderness) that I use as my bike headlight, it has a battery pack on the back so there's a coiled cord on the right side, the battery pack on the back, the thrid eye mirror, and a stick a flasher over the strap on the battery pack.
Nerd it up!!!

I thought about that (as well as transporters), but would defeat the purpose of cycling in the first place.


Unfortunately, my bike outfit makes me look like someone from the later years of any of the Trek series--fairly tight on a body that's no longer fairly tight.


Could you imagine the Borg being confined to a bike lane? (I just had to bring that in, sorry.)

That is true. And I must say that I'm rather fonder of yellow than I am of red. So cheerful, so visible...

I just thought of one problem. Don't the Borg always get crushed in the end?

I've got a rather futuristic electric Eco-bike and a MET Ippogrifo helmet. I've been called Spock by a few people at work (or could that be because of my pointy ears?)

Dunno, Heckeflosse. That helmet makes me think of the Membari from Babylon 5

My 16 year old son has another name for me in my bike garb.....