| One thing about cycling that I often associate with | | | | You turn into a morning person. |
| addiction is the tendency to push it further. As with | | | | And habitually make out before sunup, like it is night. |
| bike maintenance and cycling itself, the common | | | | You see girl cyclists second, their bikes first. |
| practice is to push it to The Edge, even if we can't | | | | You know what they mean when someone is being a |
| honestly say what The Edge really is because nobody | | | | "pain in the ass." |
| has yet come out of it alive. | | | | You almost always need three extra servings of rice. |
| In any case, any cyclist can start with an entry-level | | | | You know where the best places in your |
| bike, like say a Shimano Sora drive train. He then finds | | | | neighborhood are, to bike as well as to eat. |
| out what a P5k difference between a Shimano Sora | | | | You don't eat, you devour. |
| and Tiagra bike components can do to his cycling | | | | Your skin color is only a little fairer than the village |
| performance, so that he takes to upgrading his bike all | | | | idiot's. |
| the way to the DuraAce group set. | | | | You think that 44-36-40 is not an overweight wench, |
| The same holds true in cycling. Almost always cycling | | | | but a desirably beautiful gear ratio you want to set up |
| has been about pain and misery, which most people | | | | on your bike. |
| easily recognize. But what they forget is the pleasure | | | | You have trouble getting to work by 8 a.m., but you |
| that a body gets from cycling. I don't know about drug | | | | don't have any problems waking up at 5 in the morning |
| addiction but I'm pretty sure that cyclists are not all | | | | for a weekend bike push. |
| stupid to sweat and suffer for nothing. There must be | | | | You ride less in the neighborhood, where the roads are |
| something in it that is, at the very least, likeable. | | | | bad and you can't speed up, and more on designated |
| But when do you say enough? I wouldn't want to be | | | | bike tracks and highways. |
| caught alive saying that while in the middle of a harsh | | | | You become an environmentalist, and develop huge |
| 100-mile bike push. But perhaps it is all right. After all, I | | | | disgust at tricycles. |
| am not into competitive cycling. Still it's hard to think | | | | You no longer need a handkerchief to blow your nose. |
| about it. What is more disturbing is the change in | | | | You accept crashes not only as a part of competitive |
| lifestyle that cycling has brought upon me, and to | | | | cycling, but an opportunity as well to upgrade bike |
| friends I have known through cycling. If I learned | | | | parts. |
| anything from college, it is that there is a thin line that | | | | You empathize with road kills. |
| separates hobby from addiction. And we are walking | | | | You shop for a car and consider not its engine or |
| that very thin line, finding truth as we did in the following: | | | | transmission capacities, but its room space and rack |
| Your bike has more mileage that your car. | | | | add-ons to fit your bike. |
| You got rid of your La-Z-Boy to accommodate the | | | | You have more bike jerseys than polo shirts. |
| bike inside your room | | | | |