One of my more recent Jonesey observations is the whole BIKE thing now.
It has exploded into a major pastime (good thing too!) with loads and loads more cyclists on the roads each year.
What makes me giggle though is firstly; the attire Jonesey, and of course; the cost of the bike Jonesey....gotta look like Lance Armstrong to go for a lazy ride and stop for a latte; hysterical.
I was riding early mornings a while ago with a group of blokes (my bike is an old Hybrid clunker and very slow. But it gives you a great workout - makes you work hard, so I like it).
So, these blokes invited me to come with them - an hour or so for the total ride.
And of course; I was left totally and absolutely for dead (partly due to lack of fitness compared to them) and no doubt due to my dinosaur bike as I found out the next ride..
So, my mate lent me his old clunker (a really nice and very light racing bike) because he now has a better one than this, and he felt sorry for me getting murdered.
The difference was amazing - I was able to keep up pretty much right to the end - compared to easily a mile or so behind on mine.
So, we continued like this for a while, and I got to witness the Jonesey in full swing over a couple of months.
There about 12 blokes in this group, and it seemed that every other week someone was turning up with a new, lighter more wizz-bang bike which seemed to be a better one than everyone elses's of course, and cheaper too, of course..."got the deal of the century, boys!!"
I eventually had to give back the borrowed bike because my mate sold it, and I was left with my old Hybrid clunker - which I still have.