Ironically, some of the clearest signs that you are a die hard cyclists actually reveal themselves while you are driving. If you find yourself doing any of the following behaviors, there is a very good chance you are a cyclist. If you find yourself doing more than one of these – well, there is no question about it.
You know you are a cyclist if, while you are driving, you:
- Stick your hand out the window to point out a broken bottle in the road to the drivers behind you
- Find yourself instinctively veering off the road towards the entrance to the bike trail
- Get out of your car at a stop light to hit the cross walk button – certain that the light won’t be triggered by your presence in the lane
- Tuck in behind semi trucks when you start to feel tired
- Curse the guy directly behind you. But you don’t call him a tailgater. You refer to him as “that god damned wheel suck”
- Yell “car back” whenever anyone passes you on the left – even on the freeway
- Drink your Starbucks out of the side of your mouth without tilting your head back
- Gently use your throttle at stop lights on hills instead of your break and refer to this effort as a “prefect trackstand”
- Try and figure out how to switch your headlights to “flashy mode” in heavy traffic
- Carefully measure the distance between the back of the driver’s seat and the gas pedal
- Shift into neutral and drop down with your eyes barely over the steering wheel when going down a “steep hill”
- Refer to the “steep hill” as a “descent”
- Wonder why you can’t seem to drop the person in the passenger seat