When eating lunch in the canteen colleagues tell you that if they as so much look at your plateful of food they will put on weight.
Or they ask how far you cycle to work, what everyday, how long it takes. Then pause. Then say that you must be fit then.
Or you are all dressed up in your gear ready to go home they say crikey you're bright, no chance of some one missing you. You reply that you would have thought that no one could hit you in such hi viz but there is no accounting for the judgement of some motorists
Or a colleague says "I think I saw you cycling to work today, did you see me? I was going to blow my horn but didn't as you were looking as if you were really concentrating."
Or "Oh look, it's pouring with rain outside. Some one is going to get very wet this evening."
A 17 stone colleague tells you (s)he used to cycle everywhere and to work, but not now as where they moved would mean cycling on busy and dangerous roads and 6 miles is too far.
Or a colleague says they have a bother/sister/son/daughter who is a proper cyclist who cycles everywhere.
Or an overweight heart attack candidate colleague says they would cycle but for the fact that it would make them out of breath hot and sweaty.
Or they tell you they would cycle but there simply isn't time as they are too busy. They drive to the gym straight after work. They prefer using a cycle machine in a gym.
Sitting in your works canteen eating your home prepared cycling lunch your unhealthy colleagues frequently bore you with their own gym exercise regimes and their 'healthy' eating whilst tucking into a rubberised burger and pale bap dripping fat into a plate of soggy chips in gravy.
But best of all you know when you are a proper cyclist when kids race you on their BMXs and mountain bikes with howls of laughter from their mates.
...i'm not averse to a bit of self abuse you know.
