I won the most arguments with my ex by simply remaining quiet and letting her get verbally overboard. Later on, she would find the need to apologize. The Mrs's chatter about your pedals sounds like typical defense by changing the subject and putting you off balance.

Can we assume that she will never do that again? Can we assume that the sweater suffered either black stripes from the rubber and grease or a hole from friction. Then the punishment has been meted. You can probably expect an unasked for favor soon as her way of apologizing without apologizing. We can only hope that its pie.

Before our current relationship began, my girlfriend was on a week-long cycletour of the Oregon coast with a bunch of friends. Early on the second day, she was riding her bike with a jacket strapped to the rear rack. She was just nearing the end of the long descent and exiting to Cannon Beach when the jacket somehow got caught in her back wheel, locking it up completely. I figure she should have been able to ride it out, except that the exit lane curved, and if she kept going straight she'd end up endo'ing off the side of the road. So she crashed hard enough that she couldn't continue the tour.

So I figure getting clothing caught in the rear wheel is just something women do...

- L.

If you have reached the age that you can post on this group and you don't know enough to keep your lip zipped you've led an unhealthily lucky life.

Just how smart an old boy are you anyway?

or consider the althernative:

Just how big an old boy are you anyway?

want to be smart or big?

Kiss and make up . . . and go for another 'cool' tandem ride in Bahrain!

Yes, I certainly have been improbably lucky

And I've very much enjoyed all these comments and playful suggestions

I don't need to add, I'm sure, that the intention behind the original posting was to entertain rather than to ask advice. The stoking wife unit and I seem to get along just fine, on the basis of shared teasing!

Thanks for the fun!

That is why I carry a knife, a little slice here, a little slit there, all untangled.

That is why I carry a knife, a little slice here, a little slit there, all untangled.

This thread made me chuckle too. I think the real question is why wasn't she up front and you acting as the stoker? That would allow you the opportunity to have a great view and the freedom to be a "back seat" driver as it were. Given the chance to ride in front of or behind those of a different sex, I know where I like to be.

>>> Mrs Geezer

Bad term STEEE-RIKE ONE!

>>> some corrective feedback

STEE-RIKE TWO!!!

You're two and "O", buddy. . .how's that celibicy plan comming?

I imagine Geeze is getting used to the couch by now.

Hey Wobbly'. . .hope you're taking this in the good natured way we're serving it up. Fact is, all I know about women I could fit in a thimble.

This is as close as I can get. . .remember WKRP in Cincinatti?

Johnny 'Dr. Fever': "Wudda' women want, Les?"
Les Nessman: [five second pause] "Tupperware."

Sorry, that's all I got. . .and a drawer full of Tupperware filled with bike parts.

This thread made me laugh so hard I brought milk up through my nose...and I wasn't even drinking milk! Frankp

Recite The Man's prayer. (From the Red Green Show)

I'm a man.
But I can change.................If I have to.................I guess.

To quote Red Green again..."if the women don't find you handsome, they might as well find you handy"

Let me see if I understand correctly ('cos us Brits aren't so used to the way you all play Rounders over there)

You're saying that two whacks with the frame pump is ok, but the third is excessive?