rjones28 

Seriously?

WhyFi

Ew.

WhyFi

Priorities.

WhyFi

Again?

RPK79

She's taking the new bike better than expected actually. Oddly enough her biggest complaint was that she thought she was getting a new bike first. Her's is a little too small for her. However, she barely rides in the first place so...

rjones28 

That's no reason to not buy a bike.

RPK79

I agree, but hers can come next since I actually do ride.

WhyFi

Gonna have it tuned up and ready to pull for Sunday?

RPK79

I'll have it tuned up, but I don't know if I'm willing to take a bike I haven't dialed in the fit for on a double metric half century.

WhyFi

This reminds me that I need to touch bases with my boy and see what he thinks about Sun.

RPK79

I'm really hoping he comes and suffers miserably so I don't feel slow. Err... I mean I hope he comes and has fun because the more the merrier.

WhyFi

Lol. I'm just hoping that the weather is agreeable - a chance of rain has been sneaking in to the forecast. If the weather holds, there may be some more wheelsucking options.

RPK79

I haven't even looked at the weather. This new job has had me busy.

RPK79

Okay, so I looked at weather forecast and it has very low chance of rain and mid 70's. We may have some wind to contend with though...

WhyFi

Looking cool (high-60's to low-70s through ride time) with 20-30% chance of rain at this point.

WhyFi

What are you seeing? I'm only seeing 4-6 mph.

RPK79

Looking at Hastings on Wunderground.

https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:55033.1.99999

WhyFi

Winds out of the north kicking up at the tail end of the ride wouldn't be bad. Not at all.

rpenmanparker 

Crazy good dinner in Paso Robles, CA at Artisan last night. No details will be provided. If you can, you should see for yourself.

RPK79

Yeah. Wind never does what you want though so don't hold your breath.

Heathpack 

Maybe she doesn't ride because her bike doesn't fit her.

It seems to me that the priority should be on the person with an ill fitting bike over the person who already has a bike that works well for him.

RPK79

I wish that were the case, but it is not. I can guarantee with 100% certainty that when her new better fitting bike comes in it will sit idle in the garage just as much as the current one.

jtaylor996

Some bad news was posted on Facebook. Not sure I should just copy and paste it in here. Thoughts on that? If I did that then I'd be getting the notifications, not him... He my stay away from here while he's dealing with things (understandably).

f4rrest

Welcome to CA!

Heathpack 

You never know... if you're perpetually treated like your cycling is less important that your spouse's and your stuff is always someone's cast off stuff that doesn't work well for you, you might just seem less enthused about cycling than someone whose cycling is "more important" and whose equipment is better. I see this quite a bit with couples cycling. The most successful couples cycling is the product of the woman have equal or more priority than the man.

I'm sure you know your specific situation best, but sometimes there's nuance at play that results in important differences. She already starts behind you as far as aerobic capacity and then has worse equipment and it somehow never seems fun for her. With the implication then being she is less motivated and won't ride the bike anyway. Just worth mulling over how true that actually is. Maybe less true than you think. Maybe not.