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Has anyone been in the situation where both of you ride?
How did that work out?
Yes - in fact, we had a night ride on NY eve in the pouring rain then home for slow cooked stew the week before we found out my Mrs was pregnant. Her first comment was "Bugger, was really enjoying riding my bike!".
After 6 weeks she was back on the bike but no local family meant riding together was tricky. To start with, she'd lost fitness and confidence so I shuttled her out to the Peaks, dropped her off and gave the wee man a sleep in the car seat while she rode home with a downward gradient.
Rides together were out for ages, then we got the Croozer trailer and we love it. 2 shackles so we take turns towing and I can pop off for some good descents. Trailer is great resistance training too!
So it changes big time but riding didn't stop and we made it work well for us. I ride a lot nearly all local, lucky to have the Peak District on the doorstep though!
To be honest most of what I would say has been said before.
But defo get a low maintenance bike. I have kids aged 4 and 6 and I still don't have time to maintain my bikes particularly well.
Get a baby carrier, chest mounted initally and then one of those back pack type ones. It's not riding bikes, but it's outdoors and kids always fall asleep in them.
Don't buy gadgety things, you'll not use them and having babies is second to only weddings when it comes to companies trying to extract money from you.
That being said Phil and Teds prams are quite good but fill the tubes with Slime.
Try and get some sort of vague routine, especially round bedtime.
Sounds awful but we used the Bedtime Hour on CBeebies to set expectations of bath, story and then bed from quite an early age (like 1) and to be honest it seems to have worked out rather well. We never have battles at bedtime with either of them.
Don't freak out when the kid projectile vomits/shits/pees over you, if you're really lucky you get all 3 in one day.
One last thing: Make sure you go out on lots of "dates" before the small person arrives. You'll not want to go out for a while afterwards!!!