Recently I posted about getting my wife a bike. Even got her a very nice outfit to ride with that is good-looking. Nice skorts and a tasteful, feminine jersey that she picked out and loved. That was about 2-2.5 weeks ago. She has ridden it a grand total of ......................once............. for 2 miles. I came home last night and asked her and my daughter if they wanted to ride. Perfect evening. 73 degrees. "Oh, I'm going to get up in the morning and ride at 7am, will you ride with me then?" This morning, both are still asleep at 7:15 am(too late to ride for me).
I've bought my wife 3 bikes over the years. I think combined those three bikes MIGHT have 30 miles on them. We have a PERFECT neighborhood to ride in. No hills. Slow, courteous traffic. Little traffic overall.
I've asked her to call the neighbor down the street that sometimes rides and get together with her for some slow-paced rides they'd both enjoy. I've even gone so far as to make a Facebook post to get a group together to ride with her and got a few responses and she does not talk to any of them about getting together(all three are people she likes and would ride at her pace). When I ride with her I take it very easy and don't say anything negative, always positive. I even ride my mountain bike so I can't ride fast.
I'm sick and tired of the crap. They'd rather sit and watch recorded TV shows on the DVR than do anything. What would you do?
I know you are saying, "it's only been a couple weeks". Well, it's really been................ 24 years of the same crap.