You know you’re a true cyclist (according to J. Ramos) when…

1.  You are visibly sporting all of the appropriate tan lines:  shoes, shorts & bike jersey, (patch on lower-back for tri uniform), watch, sunglasses, & helmet.  Your face is multi-colored.

2.  You have a permanent black smear on your right inner-calf from your bike chain. 

3.  A bug pelts your sunglasses at 40mph and you don’t blink.

4.  On multiple bike routes, you know where all of the dogs live that would possibly attack you.  (You may have named them.)

5.  You can peel a banana with your teeth and eat it while maintaining perfect balance and speed. 

6.  Snot-rocketeering is like second-nature.

7.  You wake up one morning and your favorite jeans are, all of a sudden, super-tight at the thighs.
   
8.  Some flying insect has flown into your helmet or shirt and caused you to look absolutely ridiculous and then nearly die from an oncoming vehicle.  But that never stopped you from riding again.

9.  Unless it’s your day off, you don’t bother to do your hair.

10.  One of your goals in life is to be able to pull your kids in a bike trailer up a cat 5 hill.