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She complains almost every time I reach for a handlebar, it's getting very annoying now.
She needs to find a hobby. End of.
And to answer your question, no - she's got her horses, which makes mine look a cheap hobby (in both time and money).
No, my mrs has more bikes than me..
Tell her it's bikes or coke an hookers... 😀
No, why would she?
My missus gave me an ultimatum.....her or the bikes.
I don't miss her.
Not at all, she comes with me. She did once ask if I loved my bike more than her. I asked which bike. I think she was actually quite pleased to be in the running.
Nah, she's a better rider than I am.
(Which isn't hard)
Nope.
She asks why bikes aren't ready, or cleaned or stripped.
Nope, encourages me to ride (keeps me buff and less stressed) and joins me and the kids as well...
She does - apparently because I wasn't riding for the first 8 years we were together.
I have changed, she struggles with that.
Yep. As above.
[i]Does your Missus resent your bike/bikes?[/i]
Not in the least. She's got the mutt, I've got me bikes.
& I'm pleased she's not a cyclist, I love her to bits & she's my best mate but no way do I want her out on the bike with me, she can't even go round corners. (she doesn't do much sea fishing either)
dunno out as much as poss.
Buy your missus a book, well all three in the series. 50 shades of grey the next one and the one after that.
Job done no more hassle ,its been the quietest 3 weeks I have ever had
Nope. Not at all.
I made it clear from the start....I ride bikes....I am a cyclist... it takes what it takes.
We've been together 20 years.
SB
No.
She knows her place.
Mine doesn't like the time I take riding my bikes especially when I'm gone for best part of a day usually on my mtb, she doesn't seem to mind me going out on the road bike though 😕
I left a review on the website of the shop i bought my bike from from saying that I liked it (the bike) more than my girlfriend....I showed it too her, she laughed...its all good 🙂
She's glad I've got an active hobby (I gather she wouldn't be too happy if I was a chubby ****er) and I take her out on short flat local rides a few times a month so whilst she's not interested in proper mountain biking (i.e. with hills and gnarly bits) riding bikes is still something we can do together.
Only when I ride them
Nah likes the fact I am not a fat biffer and that I can explain the Olympic events to her.
Stop riding for a few weeks, start going to the pub and eating takeaways every night and put on as much weight as possible, see how she likes that.
I am the missus and I've got the best bike in our house 🙂
Also I got hubby into mtbing not the other way round.
My mrs sometimes resents me breathing. 😯
Missus?
Nah doesn't really see what its all about but quite happy to see the back of me for a few hours a couple of times of week 🙂
Mrs cloudnine has always been relatively happy with me doing my thing. I've always surfed so she was used to me disappearing out at dawn or suddenly dropping plans when the surf came up from the day we met. Riding my bike is much more planned as the conditions don't dictate when I can ride. As long as I don't take the whizz and leave her with the kids all day I'd say she's happy that I'm getting out there.
She's fine with my midweek evening rides but all day epics at the weekend are a bit more effort to plan. She gets to ride and go to the gym all week though which kinda redresses the balance.
She didn't ride until about 3 months ago and now has 2 road bikes (wet and dry) and her old unridden for 5 years mountain bike is a hybridized child carrier. that's more bikes than me... And hers get to live indoors.
Should add I get to commute by bike too 🙂
Yes.
Nope, she's suggested how to structure my riding from sept on the mtb and we go out for some serious road days. Slightly annoyed she's got her climbing head on as I have to work harder now.
I *am* the mrs and to his disappointment I have more disposable income (and thus more shiny new bikes) than he does :p
It's his own fault, I was happy pootling round on my hybrid when we got together...
If you have to ask permission or your "Missus" resents you riding is she really the right person? Too many people say "Ooh my partner wouldn't let me buy/do/have that" - why not, surely its part of who you are and what you do?
^^ wot rob said.
my missus doesnt mind at all, i made it clear at the start that sometimes i just need to do out on my bike and disappear until im ready to come back, however long that takes, shes fine with it.
ironically, because shes fine with it i dont feel the need to go out so often, which is having a detrimental effect on my waistline . . . .
I'm single but if I had a girlfriend who resented me riding then I'd resent her!
Marty 100% same scenario here. i would NEVER dream of stopping my ms going and doing what ever she needed too, its what makes her and she realises cycling is what makes me 🙂
No, why would she??
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I only get problems if there are to manyin the house
Clean road bike is ok but the muddy ones have to stay in the garage
Id wager most of those saying 'no why should she' don't have kids!
Not that I'm advocating leaving you mrs at home with the kids every weekend!
I do
Mrs hates my bike its always in the way
Thats until i recently bought a Kite Buggy thats now sitting proudly in the Dining Room
Oh, and if I called her 'my missus' I'd wake up to the smell of mountain oysters on the grill.
Eh?Id wager most of those saying 'no why should she' don't have kids!
Why do you think that? I spent an amazing afternoon biking with one of my kids today
my kids love coming on their bikes with me, doesnt happen very often though as they live in hertfordshire and im in fife.
No as long as I ride her when she wants it life's happy.
She has more bikes than me. We ride together a fair bit and she does not want to see me as a tubby lump.
Having said that, she has two basic bikes (Specialized Crossroads Hybrid and an upgraded Rockhopper) and she has kept up with people with light road bikes on longish road rides (i.e. round IOW, L2P) and climbs up Afan with the best of them.
Frustrating, as I am always trying to find an excuse to buy something newer/shinier/pimpier and she is happy to make do with what she has, which makes me feel kind of a chopper wanting to get another bike when I have a perfectly serviceable hardtail (she also contributes more to the Gribble retirement fund...).