When does a person who rides a bike become cyclist?

[snailracer]

when you switch ur p.c. on if cyclechat is the second site you check out after your emails

then your hooked my son

Oh dear, CC is the first site I check, what does that make me??

 

[Moodyman]

When you've learnt how to lubricate and play with your bottom bracket

 

[GrumpyGregry]

you're a cyclist when you say you are.

 

[HLaB]

For me, I became a cyclist when I started taking pleasure from going out for a ride in the pouring rain, going for a 25 miler at 11pm, and riding 17 miles to work. Not all at the same time, obv.

How's it obvious :?: You could quite conceivably work night shifts, get bored/ lost on the 17 commute and make a 25 miler and it rains often

 

[tyred]

Someone who knows to set the saddle to the correct height?

Does being able to make beans on toast make me a cook?

 

[Clandy]

… when you finally grow up and realise that motor vehicles are tools and not toys, and you'd rather be on a bicycle than in a metal box.

 

[alci4]

Oh dear, CC is the first site I check, what does that make me??

a loner or just unpopular lamo

alci jokes

 

[Andrew_P]

Surely it is when you ride in full team replica Lycra? +10 points if the team matches your bike..

 

[Knockoffneil]

I'm thinking a POAB will not have submitted a response to this post or be a member of this community in general.

 

[raindog]

I don't know what a POAB is. Does that mean I'm a cyclist?

EDIT
oh wait - Person On A Bike?

 

[Fnaar]

When I was in my teens and early twenties I cycled everywhere for transport, and VERY occasionally for leisure... had a stint commuting in London in early 90s for a year or so... all this time, looking back, I think I was a POAB... I had no idea about maintenance, never took spare tubes, can't remember any punctures miles from home (luckily)... it's only in the last 7 yrs or so, since I took up cycling again, and it became my main hobby, that I would see myself as someone for whom it has become more than just a form of transport.

Seat height is a good sign... I see so many people around whose seats are way too low... advised a friend of a friend on this some time ago, when he was going out for a pootle... he said it changed the whole experience for him! He suddenly found it actually comfortable and enjoyable