I came across this quite funny post called 'Clear indicators you may be a cyclenut' on a blog by Tammy Salyer (read the rest here- take the test. I date you! (I've bolded my favourites... add your own.

  • On group rides, we think to ourselves things like, “wow, that guy has a nice set of cranks,” or “that woman has one sexy saddle,” and we’re not referring to their bikes.
  • We feel naked in “normal” clothes because they don’t cling like our cycling shorts.
  • No one can sit down in our offices because our bikes are leaning against the chairs. It’s not like we’re going to leave our babies outside.
  • Instead of things in our houses being fixed with duct tape, they are simply wrapped with old tubes.
  • During most rides, we clearly hear Phil and Paul in your head as they narrate our progress and prompt us to unpack our suitcases of courage.
  • Instead of an extra shirt in our gear bags, we have extra sets of arm and leg warmers.
  • We don’t have friends. We have training partners (and this applies to all endurance athletes).
  • When faced with tough choices, we ask ourselves, “What would Lance do?”
  • We LIKE ice baths.
  • We have more cycling apps on our smart phones than we have numbers in our contact lists.
  • We find nothing strange about having around twenty things from which to drink out of in our kitchens, only two of which aren’t bike bottles.
  • It seems perfectly reasonable to eat a pint of strawberry ice cream for breakfast on long ride days.
  • We consider it a personal insult when we are passed.
  • We find two-tone skin very appealing.
  • Our senses of propriety and taste are deeply wounded when we see handlebar tape that clashes with a paint job.
  • Full carbon makes us salivate.
  • We test different positions on downhills to see if we can bend the rules of physics to increase our terminal velocity.
  • Squirrels and other darting rodents terrify us.
  • We can eat three pints of strawberry ice cream after a ride and still be at a calorie deficit.
  • Our snot rockets could seriously injure small children.
  • We plan vacation schedules around the Giro and Le Tour.
  • We automatically call out “on your left” when passing other shoppers at the grocery store. (via wejazz)
  • When we compliment someone on their flashy jersey and they say, “bright colors make you faster,” we take some time to seriously consider the possibility.
  • We don’t think this or this or this are too high a price to pay for a good ride.
  • We no longer crack a grin at the brand names “Syn Lube” and “DZ Nuts.” Lubing properly is, after all, serious business.
  • We can barely lift a bowling ball with our upper-body strength, but we could easily lift a Mini Cooper and its Sumo wrestling driver with the strength in our quads alone.
  • We buy or rent houses based largely on the length and quality of our bike commute to work.
  • We even shave your arms.
  • Strawberry ice cream.
  • We have a pet named “Cadence.”
  • There are always empty Gu packets in our washing machines. (via wejazz)
  • Dan Wuori (@dwuori on Twitter) cracks us up.
  • We find ways to work exciting anecdotes about today’s stage of whatever race into EVERY conversation. Thus, we’re left to spend a lot of time talking to ourselves.
  • We buy new bikes instead of replacing our dead kitchen stoves. Whatever, we still have our barbequeuers.
  • We wanted to name our firstborn “Thor.” (You know who you are :) )
  • We hate gravel with the intensity most people reserve for brutal dictators or the guy who buys the last box of Honey Stingers.
  • Sufferfest.
  • Our partners have learned to preface simple requests of us after a long day of riding with “if you’re not too tired…”
  • We read pedaltowardsdeath to be reminded of our mortality.
  • Our bike trainers have their own rooms.

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Gus
turn off predictive text on your ipad!! We know you're married so no one will date you
Actually that was a true qwerty typo but I will honour my word!

We don’t think this or this or this are too high a price to pay for a good ride.
The raised veins in the first two 'this'!

I Thought I was becoming addictet but as most this is not me then I must be fine ;-)
Keep the black side down and I will catch you on the next ride!
You had me at " that guy has a nice set of cranks!"

Bike trainers with their own rooms ?  My bikes have their own room............

I think its-

When faced with tough choices, we ask ourselves "What would Jens Voight do?"

I know! It's quite American isn't it.

It looks like Im not as addicted as I thought I was. Someone please hand me a spoonful of BTFU

Agreed Gus - it is quite American - perhaps "Unrestrained dogs and Ipod impaired pedestrians terrify us" might reflect a more international view (it's certainly a view of mine having recently been brought down by a directionally spontaneous canine!).


A hoot though - be interested to hear other modifications (or Australianisms ...)

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