You know you've been spending too much on bike stuff when...

solsurf
solsurf Posts: 489
edited March 2010 in The bottom bracket
The owner of the local bike shop knows the name of you and the rest of your family, including the dog!

You have a diet based around Haribo

You have to make special trips to the recycling centre with a trailer to get rid of wiggle boxes.

Any more?
http://www.pogu.co.uk
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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    When you think about a re-mortgage to fund a new bike :D
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,696
    solsurf wrote:
    The owner of the local bike shop knows the name of you and the rest of your family, including the dog!

    You have a diet based around Haribo

    You have to make special trips to the recycling centre with a trailer to get rid of wiggle boxes.

    Any more?

    More worryingly, the owner of my LBS these days is telling me NOT to buy any more stuff. I asked him today whether I should buy some Campagnolo Bora Ultra wheels, and he said.. "no".
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  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    They have your email address in their contacts list, and send you alerts when new lines arrive.
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • cheesebeanie
    cheesebeanie Posts: 21
    You get an invite to the LBS owners daughter's wedding...
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  • the_prophet
    the_prophet Posts: 426
    when you go to put petrol in your car and your cards declined, £13 worth of petrol will not get you through the wk end till payday.....

    not good.
    my canyon slx

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  • Bikerbaboon
    Bikerbaboon Posts: 1,017
    the_prophet wrote:
    when you go to put petrol in your car and your cards declined, £13 worth of petrol will not get you through the wk end till payday.....

    not good.

    just cycle to work then.... save the £13 for recovery drink powder. :wink:
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  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    you have more unwearable cycling jerseys than your wife has unwearable shoes. :oops:

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  • Runoutofgears
    Runoutofgears Posts: 348
    You can't fit your normal clothing in your wardrobe for all of the cycling gear :oops:
    I ache, therefore I am.
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Runoutofgears wrote:
    You can't fit your normal clothing in your wardrobe for all of the cycling gear :oops:

    So true :lol:
  • solsurf
    solsurf Posts: 489
    Hang on I thought cycling clothing was the norm :wink:
    http://www.pogu.co.uk
  • Gadge
    Gadge Posts: 135
    Your virtual girlfriend is LIT :wink:
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  • the_prophet
    the_prophet Posts: 426
    Bikerbaboon wrote:
    the_prophet wrote:
    when you go to put petrol in your car and your cards declined, £13 worth of petrol will not get you through the wk end till payday.....

    not good.

    just cycle to work then.... save the £13 for recovery drink powder. :wink:

    looks like im going to have to! good job im picking the bike up tonight then really.
    my canyon slx

    http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy19 ... AG0298.jpg
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    You haven't bought regular clothes for almost 2 years.

    But new cycling clothing seems to arrive almost weekly. :oops:
  • Mccaria
    Mccaria Posts: 869
    You have one garage for the MTBs and one for the road bikes and what will not fit into there goes into the gym alongside the trubo trainer.

    The guy who builds up your bikes attends your wedding.

    You are a platinum account at several internet sites and the LBS still thinks he gets most of your custom.

    You choose a car based on being able to fit a bike into the back and also have a bike roof rack and a tow bar fitted rack.

    You have more pairs of cycling shoes than normal shoes

    You have Assos clothing for each season and two sets for the summer (a UK set and a set for mainland European summers)
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    ...you can't afford to go to the pub :wink:
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    Summer beast; http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr34 ... uff015.jpg
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    edited March 2010
    cheesebeanie wrote:
    You get an invite to the LBS owners daughter's wedding...
    You get offered the LBS owner's daughter's hand in marriage...

    EDIT ...but you decline as you're expecting a delivery from chain reaction that day
  • solsurf
    solsurf Posts: 489
    Mccaria

    Its like bingo I think I can tick all those with the exception of the Assos clothing, an area of weakness I will have to work on :wink:
    http://www.pogu.co.uk
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    When Wiggle take out a restraining order for harassment against you.
  • Satu
    Satu Posts: 51
    When people at the Royal Mail depot call you "Cycle Dude" and "Chick of Cycle Dude".
  • ex-pat scot
    ex-pat scot Posts: 939
    when you own more bikes than pairs of shoes.

    when you ride more miles a year than you drive

    when friends / colleagues don't have to ask whether you have spare parts to help them out - they know you'll have several of every combination of gearing, size, era...

    when your cycle-to-work coordinator (international huge company) knows your internal tel no and rings you just before your previous c2w scheme 12 month period is up

    when the postie knows to leave all parcels next to the garage door, not the front door

    when you are an eBay "platinum seller" but still manage to spend all your receipts on more bike kit
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  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    your bike sleeps next yo you in bed
    going downhill slowly
  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    when your girlfriend suggests you go to italy for a beach holiday, relaxing by a pool and seeing the local sites and all you can think is mountains, mountains, mountains...
    What wheels...? Wheelsmith.co.uk!
  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
    You know when you've spent to much on cycling gear........When RIBBLE CYCLES move their whole retail/werehouse outlet to within a 1mile of your home :shock:
    No Pain; No Gain;

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  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    ........when you have almost as many bikes as NapD.
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    you have less money than you would like.
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    when you build an entire bike out of your spares box and still have almost enough for another one...

    when you are still halfway through your current bike build and are already thinking about the next three builds.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    ride_whenever wrote:
    when you build an entire bike out of your spares box and still have almost enough for another one...

    I'm at that stage too. Got spare frame/wheels/brakes/seatposts/saddles/pedals/cranks/bars/stems/shifters/mechs to build a 5th bike

    So I guess I should build it up?
    I like bikes...

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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    When the postie knows where the packages are going on his round just by looking at the senders details.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • Steve_b77
    Steve_b77 Posts: 1,680
    When:

    - LBS trues up wheels for nothing saying you've spent loads here no worries
    - You have a separate wardrobe/chest of drawers just for cycling gear
    - You have boxes all over the hose with "spares" in them
    - You book a nice weekend away in the lakes with the wife as you work away monday to friday and have been doing for 8 months and you enter the Whinlatter Enduro on the sunday and suggest she takes a book and goes to the cafe :lol:
  • AndyD2574
    AndyD2574 Posts: 1,034
    when you walk into your LBS and the owner rubs his hands together in anticipation!!

    when your not bothered that you drive a Volvo V50 as a company car coz the bike fits in the back!

    when your girlfriend says 'you never take me anbywhere coz your always on that f'ckin bike

    when your garage is a shrine to 2 wheels and everything has its own little space
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