BBW,

In a way, I feel your pain because my wife went from riding with me all the time to barely riding at all. She bought her recumbent tadpole trike with her money so I don't feel so bad about it just sitting in the shed collecting cobwebs. After she bought her bike, we would go riding every night in the neighborhood and then on the weekends she would come out and ride with me at the MUP. Unless I was getting ready to do a long charity ride, I would take the hybrid and ride with her at her pace; I never made it a competition. After we collided with each other, last November, I can barely get her on the bike and there's always an excuse, even though I was the only one injured. Maybe she is afraid that it might happen again; I don't know. Regardless, it got us out together and time spent together was very enjoyable.

We have always talked about biking around Florida and the US when she retires in June. But now, I'm wondering if that is going to happen. She still talks about getting a new van so we can haul the bikes around, so maybe there is hope. I don't want to push her into doing something she doesn't want to do and would really like to see her pick it back up again when she retires. In the meantime, I'm letting her decide if she wants to ride with me or not. There are too many other things that we can do together, besides cycling, that makes up for it.