You know you're a cyclist when...

[Joey Shabadoo]

When you haven't been out on the bike and you feel guilty.

 

[uclown2002]

You can anticipate the potholes on your well-travelled routes.
Your legs seem to be at least a little stiff EVERY day.
You spend an inordinate amount of time looking at weather websites.
You want a new bike; you tell yourself you 'need' a new bike; so you post on cyclechat in the expectation that almost everyone will cite the n+ 1 rule, providing the encouragement you seek.

 

[nappadang]

You get grief off your wife because the only question you ask the family you're about to visit is whether they have a bike I can borrow.
Can't transport mine so I thought this was a perfectly reasonable question to ask people I've only ever met twice. The black eye and Broken nose would suggest I may be wrong.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

you ride with club mates in the dark, on a training ride…

 

[Thomk]

You have one glove for sweat and the other for snot.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

You have one glove for sweat and the other for snot.

or a snotty forehead

 

[totallyfixed]

When you drive several hundred miles to race up a hill that looks ridiculously hard, will last less than 11 minutes, the weather forecast is dire and when it is over you are checking the date for next year's bit of masochistic torture.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

When a house move is on the cards and, rather than want to move to the town where you work, you want to move to a town that's further away from where you work than where you currently live so that you have a longer commute.

 

[EltonFrog]

When you have a 20-30 year old bike in the garage cant bear to get rid of it in case I might do it up

When you've got a 45 year old bike in the shed that you have done up, spent far to much money on, will never recoup the investment in a billion years and you don't know what to do with it now it's finished. I don't know anyone like that.

 

[lee1980sim]

You find yourself reading a thread entitled "You know you're a cyclist when..."

And checking which things you do

 

[Albert]

.......when at the first sign of rain you head for the nearest café to consume an extra large water-absorbing sponge cake.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

You have one glove for sweat and the other for snot.

Palm for glasses, back of glove for nose is my mantra

 

[LimeBurn]

I'm glad you posted this, I knew I was a cyclist when my wife slapped me for looking at a pretty lady in snug lycra, the thing was I'd not even noticed it was a female I was just admiring the carbon she was on.

Sweat used to bother you and now you cycle through cow muck without a second thought (I've just done this)
You find yourself eyeing up bikes instead of the people on them
You wish you worked further away just to have a longer/nicer route
You only check the weather forecast for wind
You become an expert on the non-existance of 'road tax'

(There may be a thread like this already but I can't be arsed looking)

 

[uclown2002]

You feel slightly cheated when you dress in all your wet weather gear -some of it new- for the anticipated downpours, only for it not to fing rain!

 

[LimeBurn]

When you've got a 45 year old bike in the shed that you have done up, spent far to much money on, will never recoup the investment in a billion years and you don't know what to do with it now it's finished. I don't know anyone like that.

I know someone like that...........Me!!!