hockeyteeth

I just realized I am a hopeless bike nerd earlier when I woke up and my first thought was about a bike build I'm working on. When did you folks come to terms with your unhealthy obsession (bikes, not crack)?

andre nickatina

I think I got it out of my system with this bike I just built...

TimArchy

When I was working at the library I would take my break to go outside and look at my bike. For 15 minutes. Sometimes I would remember to get something out of the vending machine so I wouldn't be hungry for the rest of my shift.

kyle

onetwentyeight 

i give it a week.

doofo

when my sexual interest became exclusive to bikes

Gyeswho

you hit the refresh button every 5 seconds just to see if someone posted anything like it was an ebay auction

Retem

I was born nerdy I assymilated bikes at a relatively young age
anything that draws my interests I am all about I have a real bad A D D problem and have a bunch of half done project then there will be that night of insomnia where I finish them all clean the apartment do laundry and make my wife breakfast yup that is me crazy huh?

godless scum

when i put the rocks down for a minute so i could finish mounting some tires.

andre nickatina

hahahahaha.

i was even considering keeping my road conversion for a little longer, though i think i may ditch out the front rim that i have invariably screwed up for something else... and maybe redo that headset again, and overhaul the headset on my track bike, and see if i can get the chainline 1mm more perfect, and invest all my hard earned money...

oh god.

EZbot

when you awake from a dream that you accidentally sold your prized stem on ebay... and it's one you don't even own.

BuddyMike

You check out the bike instead of the girl riding it.
You argue about gear ratios and the math involved.

hockeyteeth

I see the makings of a bike porn site underway...

endo shi

I lock my bike up in such a way that it is pleasing to the eye and then sit inside of the coffee shop and look at it. I am constatly working on the bigger and better bike. I go onto ebay at least 3 times a day to look at recently posted BINs to see if someone who doesn't know what they're unloading lets loose something cool.

I came to terms with all this when I realized I'm a naturally obsessive person who will find anything to avoid real life, be it bikes or any other hobby I've been into over the years. Bike interest is just a general vehicle to allow me to avoid reality and engage in an aesthetic movement.

Klink

I don't consider it until I'm in public. When pretty women walk by and my eye is looking the other way at some limited Merckx frame that just shot down the street. When people ask me how work is going and I immediately launch into a ramble about bottom brackets. When people say "I love you" and I respond back, "I love my bike."

wroomwroomoops

I have the same problem. Worked fine for Uni, at least the subjects I was interested in. The ones I wasn't, I just couldn't get my head around them, no way. I passed the exam for one of those subjects purely for class atendance.

But nowadays the problem has worsened. I have tons of unfinished projects, bikes, electronics etc.

Oh, and to the OP: you know you're a cyclonerd, when you use the kitchen scale to compare the weight of a V-brake setup vs. disk brake, at the same time NOT being a weight weenie!

12XU

Well I guess that like most of us here, I have an obsessive personality, but not in the sense that I have a new bike every week. I tend to switch a set-up on one of my bikes at least once every week or two, whether that means a change in bars, ratio, or even frame (if I get a cheap one thrown my way). It doesn't help that I work at a shop and am surrounded by people who all think just like me. I'm in no way complaining because it makes me happy that it's an obsession that brings me tangible benefits from my healthy physique to my flashy status symbols (kidding, dootray).

jacobpriest

i realized that my obsessive personality towards bikes was a problem when at parties i found myself talking about bicycles with other cyclist more than meeting girls aka the point of a party....

666pack

when i realized i cared about my bike more than my girlfriend... now i have all the time in the world for her, the bike that is.

also: when i got a tougher job just so i could buy more bike parts (and weed).

doofo

join us in our quest for equal rights

since we are in a loving committed (if polygamous) relationship there is no reason my bike shouldnt be able to visit me in the hospital

abeyance

there have been many magazine pictorials featuring bikes. Unfortunately, most are of wal-mart type bikes as well as crusiers. In one pictorial, a guy and a gal are "conversing" in a bike shop. while the bikes are crap, there is a Specialized logo prominent.

Noticing that shows I am a bike geek.

fetch

hahah +1

endo shi

Do any of you guys show your bored girlfriends/boyfriends pictures on the internet of hot bikes? Yeah, I avoid it but it generally happens. She's good and feigns interest. I've met many gfs of friends who are the same way.

marqueemoon

When you find a deal on sweet vintage ride for your significant other then spend years looking for a matching one for yourself.

SSfreak

When your mother in law moves your bike to the other side of the garage without asking and your like "SHE DID WHAT." AND then spend a good 10 minutes looking for scratches she might have put on the paint job and finding out she had dropped the bike and put a ding on the top tube on your new bike/paint job and then start crying like someone died.

(Just happened)

Retem

I remeber peoples rides before I remember them