gpelpel

Work in progress...

Beaker

I'm in the same boat as BlastRadius, O_o and Ygduf.

Well, my sarcasm-o-meter redlined, dunno 'bout you guys....

Ygduf

Sounds like a perfect recumbent rider.

HI-YO, here all week, etc...

jobob

Yep, my husband rides too. I'm more into the long-distance foolishness, while he feels a metric century is a mighty fine distance.

He politely turned down the opportunity to train with me on the TNT Death Ride team (I think his words were something along the lines of "are you kidding?!?" ) but he helped out with SAG on many of our training rides.

Stan the Man

Mine does not, mainly because she does not have a bike to ride. Her bike was given to her sister since its a kids bike that is 12 years or so old. I'm hoping I can find her a decent inexpensive road bike on CL or BD so we can ride together around town instead of taking my truck.

uspspro

I LOL'd at this... more than once...

steelblue

My wife rides occasionally but my son doesn't. When all his other activities, he hasn't learn how to ride a bike yet but that's my goal this summer. Any tips on teaching a nine year old to ride?

JoelS

Just put him on the bike. My son learned when he was 6. No training wheels. I held up the bike and ran next to him for 15 or 20 seconds and let go. That was it.

jeffy1021

My wife doesn't seem to mind riding with me, but she wouldn't go by herself. But it does help that a lot of our friends have more recently started riding. About one to two Saturdays per month, a bunch of us will go on a casual ride anywhere from 10-30 miles and go out to eat afterward. While we may not be cruising at 20 MPH, it makes for a fun hang out time (not to mention exercise) .

t4mv

1) stick attached to bike, so you don't have to bend over while supporting child + bike
2) trusted friend(s) (your kid's, not yours) that ride. There's nothing like peer pressure to speed up the process.
3) make sure you teach 'im how the brakes work

velocycling

My SO and I eat sleep drink cycling. We ride, race, and vacation on bikes. She has been in the feedzone for the last 3 weeks for me. And tomorrow I will be supporting her. If you count vacations as cycling expense, we spend above the property level for a family of 4. We get up early for watch cycling.tv and fall alseep to Phil and Paul at night.

Doohickie

The subject has been raised without result.

Red Rider

After about 4 years of not riding, I picked it up again in a serious way about 4 yrs. ago. I was into my 2nd summer, riding a century a month or thereabouts, with another couple, with cgallagh being the SAG guy and happy to do so. He never nagged me about taking up hang gliding, so I extended to him the same respect.

In Oct. '06 he bought a tandem, totally his idea, which turned out to be one of the best ideas EVer. He bought his half-bike about 7 mos. later. All our long rides together are on the tandem. We were okay having separate interests and even more okay having this shared one.

overthere

In college my fiance was a dedicated roadie. I was a tennis player and did karate. He took me out for a ride. I HATED it!! It was dusty, hot, seemed pointless to pedal down this long, featureless road, I had no fun at all, and grumbled mightily the entire time. It was the last time we rode together. We still got married, had kids, he continued to ride, and I did my thing when he did. We divorced 2 kids years later. I didn't get on a bike again.

When I hit my late mid-40's, I was gaining weight, and feeling aches and pains, when I saw a co-worker race through a yellow light with her hubby, bright in lycra and fierce. Hey, that looked cool!! I got a bike. I started riding. I think I bonked the first time I rode into town, all of 5 miles along bike paths on a hybrid I bought, and wondered if I was going to make it back to my house, lol...but I kept at it.

I've been riding almost 5 years now, and can't imagine my life without it. My SO, Cycle17, I met here, through Bike Forums. We did Party Pardee this year as our first metric together. He wrenches! We're beginning to get matching kits . When he comes for Memorial weekend, I'm going to take him to ride Capay Valley. He wants to do my first century together. We share dreams of riding in Italy and France, New Zealand, and more along the California Coast. I LOVE sharing such a large part of my life with a SO. We both stay healthy and fit, ride hard, clean up and cuddle, and eat well afterwards!

cycle17

^^ That's My Gal!^^ Can't wait to be in NorCal with her full-time!

reidconti

Just started dating a girl recently... she took me up OLH for my first time, and beat me by 6 minutes. Maybe that's why I like her

Red Rider

Let me know when you get a tandem. Then we'll know you're serious.

That's a sweet story, btw. Couldn't have happened to a nicer lady.

cccorlew

Let me just add some taunting here.

1jacktripper

ya lucky dog!

Ygduf

jobob

Hah, back at ya!

powpow

My gf is a competitive runner who started road biking about 1.5 years ago. Running will always be her main sport, but she rides once or twice a week and has fun out there. Will she ever be passionate/obsessive about cycling like me? I doubt it.

Lanceoldstrong

My wife got me into cycling. There I feel so much better now that my secret is out. Here is us atop Diablo just last month.


She is also the smart one. She said we would need jackets and I am the one with no jacket, freezing with my highbeams on.

kjfitz

My wife thinks my cycling is a mental illness. She did actually get a bike a year after I started all my riding but she just rides a couple of miles at a time, usually to the gym where she teaches and back. On our only "long ride" (6 miles) she crashed very hard and hasn't expressed much interest in longer rides again.

Now my 5 year old daughter is another story. She wants to do PBP.

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Kevin

joe@vwvortex

My wife and I's first date was the Sierra Century in 2003.