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From The Awl... which is a good read if you don't mind the odd piece of liberal snark here and there:

Old Men Using Bikes To Snag Young Chicks  (by Balk @10:15 AM)

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"With a bike, it’s all about fitness, strength and stamina. But in some ways a top of the range bicycle says many of the same things about you as a sports car – they both have a rugged, dangerous element to them."
—Psychologist Cliff Arnall explains the logic behind the idea that bicycles are the new Ferraris when it comes to signaling midlife crises in middle-aged men. I am not exactly sure why riding around on something that squashes your nuts flat like a penny on a railroad track will somehow increase your attractiveness to the opposite sex, but then again I hate bicycles and the people who ride them, so maybe I'm not the best person to judge.

Heh... this strikes a certain chord with me.  Now I don't actually hate bikes and the people that ride them, with the possible exception of those spandex-clad Yuppie types cluttering the bike paths on the Left Coast.  Or more specifically, when those same Yuppies ventured OFF the bike paths and got in my way in normal city traffic. Those types are oh-so-fortunate they didn't get run right the Hell over.  I hate those asshats.  Old men should stick to sports cars, anyway. There's much less wheezing involved in operating one.

Speaking of wheezing... we're back from our commissary/beer run out to Cannon Airplane Patch and took our first dose of Mucinex about an hour ago.  It's high hopes we have.