How much time do you spend day dreaming about bikes and riding

[Fishbike]

So I was in a non-profit board meeting, reviewing a proposed budget and talking about all kinds of critical financial information. The woman next to me had her eyeglass case on the table; it was a deep bronze color and I couldn't help thinking what a great color it would make for a bike frame -- maybe with cream panels, light blue lettering and some nice earthy brown leather saddle and tape. I should have been paying attention to the Power Point but instead I was concocting a bike scheme. When do bikes and rides take over your brain when you should be thinking about other things?

[dave thompson]

...far too often....

[dsimon]

MOre than Dave hes getting dementia.:fight:

[MattTuck]

Sounds like you're talking about Kirk007's bike.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii145/landshark_98/IMG_0069-1.jpg

Maybe his is more copper than bronze.

[dave thompson]

MOre than Dave hes getting dementia.:fight:

Dimitri, I'm going to come to Virginia to kick your Army azz before I forget how!:beer:

[dsimon]

Cheers My Old friend....4 more and im done My friend

[Brucer]

When do bikes and rides take over your brain when you should be thinking about other things?[/QUOTE]

Shouldn't this be the other way around?

[oldpotatoe]

So I was in a non-profit board meeting, reviewing a proposed budget and talking about all kinds of critical financial information. The woman next to me had her eyeglass case on the table; it was a deep bronze color and I couldn't help thinking what a great color it would make for a bike frame -- maybe with cream panels, light blue lettering and some nice earthy brown leather saddle and tape. I should have been paying attention to the Power Point but instead I was concocting a bike scheme. When do bikes and rides take over your brain when you should be thinking about other things?

Riding, a lot..since I'm not riding very much..bikes, not...

I 'dream' of being not needing to work, riding lots, traveling to ride in Sicily or someplace in Tuscano..bike doesn't matter.

[Cat3roadracer]

Bikes do take over your brain. A bad thing? Definitely not. Works of art as we see here, built by amazing people that on occasion we have the chance to share a tall boy, (not really share a tall boy, we each have our own).

We have been given a gift to recognize these gifts and must purchase and build as many as we have hooks for in our shop. And when the hooks fill up we add more hooks.

God Bless, we are on the right track.

[patstar]

all day, every day

[Louis]

Too much.

[pdmtong]

Wasnt there a study that showed most daydreams in meetings had to do with other co-workers?

[IJWS]

I think the scientists say that we think about bikes every 13 seconds? Not sure though...

[DHallerman]

Wasnt there a study that showed most daydreams in meetings had to do with other co-workers?

Exactly.

I have a few co-workers I'd love to go for a ride or two with.

[msl819]

Sounds like you're talking about Kirk007's bike.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii145/landshark_98/IMG_0069-1.jpg

Maybe his is more copper than bronze.

Have to say... still one of my all time favorite bikes on the forum.

[MattTuck]

Where s is the amount of time per 24 hour day spent sleeping, and x is the amount of time spent thinking about bikes.

x = 24 - s


It is not healthy. :banana:

[rugbysecondrow]

Almost none lately. My only riding in the last month has been riding with my six year old daughter, which is just fine with me. I have been doing so many other things, I haven't missed biking a bit.

[choke]

Quite a bit recently; mostly about selling everything, buying a one way ticket to Europe and spending a few years exploring on two wheels.

[charliedid]

I work in a bike shop so I don't have to daydream. I do however, have terrible nightmares about bikes...

[mktng]

haha funny thing.
the girlfriend just asked me why I dont talk about her like I talk about my bikes.
really had to dig myself out of that hole on that one. *phew*

she calls it an obsession.
passionate is a bit better description.

[SoCalSteve]

Exactly.

I have a few co-workers I'd love to go for a ride or two with.

Post of the day!!! Made me laugh out loud, thank you!

[Ralph]

Don't have to dream about it....Can just do it. Being retired, and living in Florida, I can ride almost every day if I wish. Rural roads, plenty of 14' wide paved trails to ride during peak traffic times, nice weather about 8-9 months of the year (just get out early the other hot sticky months). Hot doesn't keep me off the bike as much as cold would in other climates.

[bluesea]

I don't daydream about riding, although in an early morning shower I might take the time to visualize certain sections for an anticipated aggressive ride.

[cmg]

how much time? it's a nice distraction from the little details that bog down the issues at work. when i have time i read forum stuff. but yea, i've come with solutions to work related issues while crusing the internet looking at bike stuff. So the real question is how much time does work interfer with thinking about bikes? too much.........

[arcadian]

Most of it.

[abelson]

Too much time daydreaming, not enough time riding. But I count it as productive time when I day dream about bikes while riding.

[sancruz]

I find myself thinking a lot more about bikes when I can't ride - like in the dead winters of Wisconsin.

[dd74]

When I worked in animation, there was a Superman/Batman writer who swore she was writing even when she was daydreaming about writing. I apply the same to my bike (though not my heart rate).

[Mr Cabletwitch]

Not nearly enough. It might help shut the voices in my head up.

[druptight]

Way too much time thinking about it this time of year, and not nearly enough time actually doing it!

[rpm]

Having resigned from the winter commuting club (too many trips to the ER) I'm usually going stir-crazy by the end of January. I've cleaned and polished my bikes, put on new bar tape, and bought new bike stands for the garage so my fleet is more than ready. During the day I'm viewing bike porn and if I'm having trouble getting to sleep at night I review some of my favorite rides in my mind, turn by turn, hill by hill. That works like a charm, and I'm amazed at how many details I can recall.

[false_Aest]

I haven't been able to ride more than 10 miles at a time since October.

I had dreams of racing CX 2012-2013 and being ready to jump into the first part of 2013's race season just after peaking for CX.

Instead, I'm teaching myself how to fillet braze and I'm learning to understand bike geometry.

Quite frequently I'm "checked out" during a conversation or "researching" when I should be doing something else.

[drhule33]

how many hours are in a day? 20? Oh, no, that's the number of gears my bike has.
Oh yeah, 24!