http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twyBG1Tq_8o

- time spent/waisted on cycling retailer’s websites when I know there’s nothing I really need
- buying a 10-pack of spare inner tubes, just in case the price goes up…
- listen out for the kids before applying chamois cream
- barely making it back home after a wet cold ride with several punctures, egged on by the knowledge of that leftover bowl of your favourite food in the fridge, sadly consumed by your youngest who’d been missing your cooking skills for the last six hours.
- watching a race live on TV for hours, only to insist to watch the highlights as well when the whole family is assembled

and admit it, we’re only being VERY selective with our lists.

you might like
http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/4986/articles/confessions-of-an-amateur-bike-mechanic/

For me:
- Applying chamois cream. You know it.
- Walking around in cleats
- Padded shorts
- Fixing punctures with freezing cold hands
- That feeling, that knowing feeling, when your front wheel slides out from beneath you
- Pretending to be a mechanic and spending many a frustrated hour before taking bike to LBS anyway!
- Winter. Full stop.
- Trying to force food down my throat at 5am for an early ride
- Getting up at 5am
- Taking it easy/quitting the booze before big rides
- Finding yourself on dual carriageway
- Approaching a four lane traffic Island that connects motorways/dual carriageways with that tiny lany you need to turn off at, fourth exit around
- The bonk
- Any kind of noise on the bike

Hmm, you do wonder sometimes – must be one hell of a “why I love cycling list!”