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

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  • Eskimo427
    Eskimo427 Posts: 288
    when you spend more on your bikes than you do on your cars!
  • bushtuckerlad
    bushtuckerlad Posts: 52
    Whats wrong with a volvo? i have a v70 and it dose everything i want it to. 4 bikes in the back and two on the roof.Oh and yes when your bank is in the -. :lol:
  • Chrissz
    Chrissz Posts: 727
    When your rather nice Jag is worth less than your summer bike (and your winter hack isn't that far behind either!)
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    When you walk into your LBS and the owner throws everyone else out.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    When you walk into your LBS and the owner knows the shop will be in the black again this month.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    When you get a second job and tell them to pay your earnings directly into the 'special' account.

    When you have to build a second shed for storing bicycle accoutrements in.

    When you apply for a job at a place because the LBS would be on your commute.
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  • nitesight
    nitesight Posts: 119
    When you seriously consider moving from a house you love because the one your going to has a HUGE garage with room for a home workshop.....

    and tell your wife it's because the kids can have their own bedrooms........
  • lfcquin
    lfcquin Posts: 470
    Steve_b77 wrote:
    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:

    :shock: Do you know me? Have you been talking to my missus? :lol:
  • markyboy2005
    markyboy2005 Posts: 465
    When you take your bike on a 5 city regional office tour (for work) just so its with you at the final destination for a ride on the Saturday...
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Runoutofgears wrote:
    You can't fit your normal clothing in your wardrobe for all of the cycling gear :oops:

    pah! I have a boyfriend who doesn't have any normal clothes, its either cycling gear or works uniform :shock:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • redjeepǃ
    redjeepǃ Posts: 531
    NGale wrote:
    Runoutofgears wrote:
    You can't fit your normal clothing in your wardrobe for all of the cycling gear :oops:

    pah! I have a boyfriend who doesn't have any normal clothes, its either cycling gear or works uniform :shock:

    Kinky.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    ...when your penis stays permenantly shrunk...

    'Oh crap, time to retreat fellas!'
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    When you start going for drinks with the shop owner after work.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • Barrie_G
    Barrie_G Posts: 479
    When your Pacelforce driver automatically brings any boxes marked wiggle or CRC etc. to your house even if you haven't ordered anything out of force of habit.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    When you fancy some sweets, so you order stuff from Wiggle cos the sweets are free :D
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    When you dont get sweets free from Wiggle anymore because they know they have you.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    I suspected that, but I put another order in just to check, and got sweets :D
  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    You know you've been spending too much on bike stuff when...


    You see African children in your Assos cast - offs, on tv.
  • crimsondynamo
    crimsondynamo Posts: 246
    ...when your bike is worth three times more than your car.
  • Foucault
    Foucault Posts: 104
    Friends ask you how many bikes you own and you've no idea.

    The owner of your LBS has just bought a brand new Rolls Royce.

    Your buying habits affect the international price of titanium.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    ...when your LBS answers the phone by saying your first name with glee...
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    When you have enough stuff to open your own LBS. (Although not sure there would be much demand for a load of kit in only one size...)
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    The LBS owner opens the door for you...
  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    The MD of your credit card company calls you for bike buying advice.

    Baliffs have a box of drawing pins to scatter outside your house in case you try to make a quick getaway.

    Your debt counsellor has a track pump in reception.
    What wheels...? Wheelsmith.co.uk!
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    You consider setting up a subscription to your LBS rather than just paying every time you go there.
  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    You have to attend a support group for reformed cyclists...you enter the room and sit in a circle and announce "My name is simon and i'm a cyclist" and everyone gives you a polite emphatic round of applause before you recount your inventory of bike purchases, breaking down in tears and comforted with a piping hot cup of electrolyte drink from a support chair behind you.
    What wheels...? Wheelsmith.co.uk!
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Or, you give your employer the bike shop's bank details for your wages to be paid directly to them.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    edited March 2010
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    The LBS owner opens the door for you...

    ..........of the limo he sent to pick you up and bring you to the shop.
  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    Your girlfriend looks through your internet history and starts insisting that it may be healthier to look at some porn.
    What wheels...? Wheelsmith.co.uk!
  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    When your company sends out a memo to all staff telling them personal deliveries are no longer allowed.

    When you pay 4k at your lbs, it goes through on the card without a hitch.

    When you get so impatient waiting for your new wheels to turn up, you go out and buy another set 'to tide you over'

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