Recumbent - Boss vetos my recumbent trike (sigh...)

I love my Catrike Speed. This puppy is both fast and comfy. Unfortunately, it is also low to the ground and my better half has vetoed the riding of it on city streets (flag or no). In the interest of marital bliss, I'm reluctantly going to have to sell my trike on e-Bay. It was fun while it lasted... :(

Woah Woah Woah. Why not keep it and ride it on rural roads? Hmmm...This sounds like a bum deal to me, if my live-in-girlfriend were to tell me that I would have some serious worries. I say just HIDE the TRIKE. OR pass it off to your good buddy Mike in Oregon. I'll babysit it for you!

I love my Catrike Speed. This puppy is both fast and comfy. Unfortunately, it is also low to the ground and my better half has vetoed the riding of it on city streets (flag or no). In the interest of marital bliss, I'm reluctantly going to have to sell my trike on e-Bay. It was fun while it lasted... :(


What are you? A mouse or a man? Well.......squeak up!
But seriously, I think that as long as your life insurance premiums are paid up to date, your wife shouldn't have any thing to worry about. My wife knows better than to tell me to give up something that I love.

Seems like she'd rather have you go from something less violent... like cancer.

Seems like she'd rather have you go from something less violent... like cancer.

:roflmao:

I love my Catrike Speed. This puppy is both fast and comfy. Unfortunately, it is also low to the ground and my better half has vetoed the riding of it on city streets (flag or no). In the interest of marital bliss, I'm reluctantly going to have to sell my trike on e-Bay. It was fun while it lasted... :(

Man, that is a bummer. I bet you will regret getting rid of it. Have you taken it out on the street and had her follow you in the car from a ways back? Just so she can see how other vehicles react to you?

I told her that drivers would pay MORE attention to me - they'd think I was handicapped or something, riding a trike... She didn't buy that one either. My Catrike is up on e-Bay as of this Sunday. The wife marched me down to the LBS and made me buy a Specialized Rockhopper. That's my wheels for the near future. :o

I still have dreams of glory - maybe I can eventually talk her into letting me try a Turner T-Rex! :D

My Catrike is up on e-Bay as of this Sunday. The wife marched me down to the LBS and made me buy a Specialized Rockhopper. That's my wheels for the near future. :o

I think I'm going to vomit. :eek:

Once her mind's made up, there's no use trying to confuse her with facts!

You've got that reserve up at retail, right?

Whaaaaa???

I'm sorry, I'm normally very supportive of wives' opinions, but this is just silly.

Wait, did you make the mistake of not letting her try it, too??

You've got that reserve up at retail, right?

Now that's an idea! ;)

In reality you are far more likely to get collected on the Rock Hopper than a trike, and if you get hit on the Hopper you are more likely to sustain serious injury. Sheesh what a bum deal.
I ride all types of bikes and the lack of room and respect a MTB gets is a real shock after any kind of unusual bike and especially a trike the only HPV that gets more room and respect/co-operation from cars is is a Velomobile and thats just a dressed up trike anyway.
Your wife hasn't just raised your life insurance by any chance? ;)

Woah Woah Woah. Why not keep it and ride it on rural roads? Hmmm...This sounds like a bum deal to me, if my live-in-girlfriend were to tell me that I would have some serious worries. I say just HIDE the TRIKE. OR pass it off to your good buddy Mike in Oregon. I'll babysit it for you!

Wives require more committment than GF's. At least if you want to keep her. (and both halves of your stuff.)
:love:

wow - I'd sell my wife first, and she knows it. Pull up your panties, nancy - your hoo-hah is showing!

Yeah, I'm a wimp, but I've also been married now for 26 years. If I let this wife go, the likelihood of finding another woman who'll put up with me is nil. On the other hand, if I let this recumbent trike go, there's always a possibility of changing the wife's mind in a year or so and getting another trike! A wise man chooses his battles.

Farhorizion, this is just so sad :( . I dont know wats worse, being without a bent, or the fact your wife is so heartless as to stop you doing wat you love. Seriously, its ****ing wrong! Your wife has a wacked out opinion, and she obviously hasnt ridden one.... :( . Want my opinion? Divorce, divorce, divorce, divorce!

Ah yes, marital bliss. Very hard to come by these days. So when I dropped 2 grand to get a very slightly used Greenspeed GTX, my wife was NOT amused! Despite it's retail value of over 7 grand!!
No, I haven't had to sell it yet. My wife figures that's the price of keeping marital bliss alive. Not that I NEEDED another bike, but it made me REALLY happy to have such a fine trike. As long as I keep it in the garage. Note; 2 car garage has NO room for ANY cars!
Kind of funny too, we were watching Home & Garden TV when the couple shopping for a new house needed a "man room" somewhere in the layout. My wife turned to me and apologized for me not having a "man room". I shockingly replied, "What do you mean I don't have a "man room"?! Have you been out to the GARAGE lately?" "Oh, so you're OK with the garage as "man room"?
ABSOLUTELY!!! It contains my 6 recumbents (including 2 tandem trikes), 5 road bikes, 3 mountain bikes, a dozen kids bikes, 40 G scale train cars & locos with 200' of track, the ENTIRE Thomas's Island of Sodor, 20 1/32 slot cars & track, woodworking tools including a table saw, a complete bicycle mechanics set of tools & stand, metal working tools with welder, house painting tools & equipment, car painting tools & equipment AND my computer graphics workstation. Thats not mentioning the pantry, camping gear & other assorted storage.
Maybe it's not a "MAN room", more like a big kids toybox!
But the wife is OK with that and I'm OK with her NOT being a cyclist. She doesn't bug me about having to park her car outside and I don't ask her if she wants to go for a bike ride. She has ridden her 1 bike like 3 times since I gave it to her for her 16th birthday. (that was dang near 30 years ago!)
So maybe to keep your trike you need to; do the dishes EVERY night, vacuum more often, have dinner ready when she gets home, bathe the kids, take out the garbage and generally be overly supportive of her & her interests.
Works for us and I'M A HAPPY TRIKER!!
Maybe you & the Mrs. need to try one of my tandems??! Could be your NEXT trike!
Good luck & maybe a $1 million life insurance would ease her worried mind!:rolleyes:
Dr. D

Looks like its time for you to find a new hobby..... Go and find yourself some catalogs on base jumping equipment and leave them around the house for her to find... She will forget all about the trike

~or~ ultralight aircraft :) Maybe Counceling? Just say there seems to be something wrong and you'd like to get to the bottom of it. This may be risky, however!

Farhorizion, this is just so sad :( . I dont know wats worse, being without a bent, or the fact your wife is so heartless as to stop you doing wat you love. Seriously, its ****ing wrong! Your wife has a wacked out opinion, and she obviously hasnt ridden one.... :( . Want my opinion? Divorce, divorce, divorce, divorce!


Easy guys. The woman loves her husband and wants him to be safe. She got him a new bike for goodness sakes! Some people trust their gut more than others. She feels the trike is unsafe and logic or data will not change that. If I strongly felt like that about something my wife was doing, that I feared for her very life, I would hope that she would respect my concerns and look for a solution to the issue.

Easy guys. The woman loves her husband and wants him to be safe. She got him a new bike for goodness sakes! Some people trust their gut more than others. She feels the trike is unsafe and logic or data will not change that. If I strongly felt like that about something my wife was doing, that I feared for her very life, I would hope that she would respect my concerns and look for a solution to the issue.
Yeah, but if I was concerned about something my partner does then I'd take my time to try to understand it before making a decision that changes my partners life like that!
And come on, surly I didnt sound too serious about the "divorce". I dont expect anyone would read that and go;
"duhh, yeah divorce- its the only way to ride my trike." ...........:rolleyes:

I love my wife. Not only did she let me get a trike, she let me open my own business! What a gal. :)

In a year when you get your next trike, make it a tandem. I did; and now all I hear are praises coming from the back seat. (OK, except when I take turns fast enough to get one of my wheels off the ground).

My live-in girlfriend told me I can take whatever risks I want, provided I take a very large life insurance and name her as the beneficiary.

My live-in girlfriend told me I can take whatever risks I want, provided I take a very large life insurance and name her as the beneficiary.

Lately, my wife had taken to asking me how much life insurance I had. It was really starting to get to me and I was ready to lock up all of the knives in the house away. Anyway, I had my agent come to the house and I lowered it. Now my wife keeps saying "Be careful, it's not worth it anymore if you get hit out there." :D

True story, I swear.

Farhorizon, I'm so sorry to hear you're selling your trike.:cry: This thread sparked a real conversation with my wife about my trike riding. She's not convinced I'm safe out there, specially with some of the big SUVs. But she knows that I need to keep riding and that I'm having more fun now than ever before. Since I've lost 20 lbs. without doing anything different other than trike riding, she knows it's also better for my health. I've been married for over 30 years and we have differences of opinions on some things. These differences mean that we might not always do what the other wants, but we need to respect the others choices.

...This thread sparked a real conversation with my wife about my trike riding. She's not convinced I'm safe out there, specially with some of the big SUVs...

My wife frets about me being out there on ANY bike, but she's just a worrier by nature. That's why I let her choose my latest set of wheels (the Specialized Rockhopper). If SHE made the choice, then she can't come back and complain about the bike being too light, too low, or too un-seen-by-motorists.

So far, so good.

There is risk associated with every aspect of life. If you want to take no risks at all, then you might as well end your life now! For me, the benefits of bicycling outweigh the risks by a significant margin. Eventually, I think my wife will agree. Until then, I can afford to humor her.

There is risk associated with every aspect of life. If you want to take no risks at all, then you might as well end your life now! For me, the benefits of bicycling outweigh the risks by a significant margin.

So true. I might one day get clobbered while I'm out riding, but it's certain I'd be a mess if I didn't ride.

I told my wife to be 16 yrs ago that cycling comes with the package or she dont get the package. She's not a cyclist and I'm not into cars. I ride she drives.... Great sex and we compliment each other and our kids are well entertained.
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II ride she drives.... Great sex and we compliment each other and our kids are well entertained.

THere has to be a joke in there somewhere. :D

Dennis

P.S. I always enjoy looking at your trike pics. Mean Machine!

Still a bit confused...

She made you get rid of one bike, to ride another? Trike to (upright) bike is not a whole lot of change in the risk factors.

Why not make you trade your bike for some golf clubs, a deer stand, or a gold membership at the local strip club?

Is this your wife or mother? I am a women and am horrified at your lack of backbone. Marriage shouldn't be one concession or manipulation after another, until you don't even know who you are any more. But hey if you want several decades of that, have at it.

I told her that drivers would pay MORE attention to me - they'd think I was handicapped or something, riding a trike...

Actually there is a guy in my town with MS that rides a trike daily on the road and also comes out occasionaly and rides with our club. The guy is one of my inspirations looking at how hard he works at keeping his health. Tell your wife that it is more dangerous not riding than riding any form of bicycle. Plus get a big red flag on a pole to hang off the back.

My wife had pretty much stopped riding her two-wheeled recumbent with me on the street as she felt unstable in traffic. When I got my trike she asked if it was scary riding that low and I told her how I thought it would be at first even though others had mentioned they seemed to get a lot more room from motorists while riding trikes. I assured her that it seemed they were right and offered to let her ride it. I ended up having get her a trike so I could get mine back! Like my man Redd Foxx always said: "A friend of mine quit smoking and got ran over by a tobacco truck! Ran right over his nice, clean lungs. I was smoking at the funeral, trying to relax."

Just recently I wanted to purchase a Jeep Wrangler...I've been married for 37 years and the wife wanted to hear nothing about it....so I went the route I've used in the past ...goes like this.....me entering
the living room...honey, we have to talk....her, about what?...well I've been thinking about the jeep thing and
I have to agree it's not a must have...it's more of a want....so I think it will be less expensive if I get that
Harley I've been wanting...she stops me right there and says...your not buying a Harley..you'll kill yourself!!
me...Well I work really hard at work and need to have some things to relax with and enjoy life....I get up and
say....you think about this...it's either the Harley or a Wrangler...it's your decision! and I leave the room......
go to the computer and give it about an hour......go back up and say....well, what's it going to be..the Harley
or the Wrangler?......well .......I got me one pretty yellow Wrangler Sport sitting in the garage!!
Remember, it's all in how you ask.
Lew

I love my Catrike Speed. This puppy is both fast and comfy. Unfortunately, it is also low to the ground and my better half has vetoed the riding of it on city streets (flag or no). In the interest of marital bliss, I'm reluctantly going to have to sell my trike on e-Bay. It was fun while it lasted... :(


Does she ride? If she does not then she does not understand. In that case it is difficult to help her understand, but it can be done. Why do you give up so easily on things like this? Reading your other posts it seems like you have your balls in her purse, that or she has taken them from you, put them there & will not give them back. I'm sure you love her but for goodness sake stand up to her every now & then & take them back form her, they're yours after all. You can do so with out it ruining your marriage, trust me, I know. She may not like it but she'll get over it. How long have you been married anyway? Signing a marriage liscense does not give her exclusive rights to your jewels you know, they are not even on permanent loan to her. It seems your marriage is a one-way street, her way & that's it. What else does she not want you to do? I feel sorry for you dude. Good luck.