Cycling Adventures
The Uncommitted Cyclist

Indicators That You Aren't As Committed To Bicycling As, Say, Laurent Jalabert...

• You've consented to let the neighborhood kids use your bicycle helmet for second base...
  
  
• You have a continuing tendency to try to brake by pedalling backwards...
  
  
• You refuse to take your bike down from the hooks in the garage ceiling for fear you'll disturb the horde of yellowjackets nesting in your saddle bag.
  
  
• You could've sworn that Lance Armstrong was the Mountie on "Rocky and Bullwinkle"...
  
  
• From atop her child-conversion stoker's kit, your seven year old daughter continually harangues you for "not pulling your weight"...
  
  
• Sweat is just too icky and gross...
  
  
• You would ride further, if only the beer in your CamelBak would stay cold longer...
  
  
• You cancel your ride because The Weather Channel just reported that rain is moving south through Kansas. Never mind that you live in Texas...
  
  
• Your heart rate monitor max alarm is set to go off at 80 bpm or 12 minutes, whichever comes first...
  
  
• Your fave training CD was recorded by Enya...
  
  
• In the cosmic training schedule of your life, this is a "rest decade"...
  
  
• You reach your anaerobic threshhold pulling on your cycling shorts...
  
  
• You cannabilized your rear derailleur in an attempt to repair your garage door opener (which, by the way, failed miserably)...
  
  
• Your idea of an energy replacement bar is an Eskimo Pie...
  
  
• Who's Laurent Jalabert?