Riding With Your Wife

[Just Keep Pedaling]

I tell my wife:

 

"Sweetie, the moment you get on the MTB you are no longer my wife and I am no longer your husband. You are responsible for yourself and whatever happens on the trail. If you get pedal shin I don't want to know. If the hill is hard I don't want to know. MTB is my 'man time' and if you want to come along you are going to be treated like a man."

 

It was a bold move, and could have gone quite badly, but it didn't, so happiness ensues.

[Just Keep Pedaling]

"What is half-wheeling?"

 

I thought is was when you ride half a wheel BEHIND your riding partners and then when they steer left or right they don't see you and their back wheel collides with your front wheel.

[Wayne Potgieter]

I stopped riding with my wife. but only because she keeps beating me.

[DJ84]

I like riding behind my wife and just touching wheels,

gives her a fright and makes her pedal faster!

 

I agree with the man time,

if she comes with she does as i say as it is my time.

but i help her out wherever i can.

[walkerr]

I thought is was when you ride half a wheel BEHIND your riding partners and then when they steer left or right they don't see you and their back wheel collides with your front wheel.

 

Think that's called overlapping - also bad form, and likely to cause accidents, whatever the right term is.

[TNT1]

"What is half-wheeling?"

 

 

One of the most annoying things about riding with someone new to the sport is the “Half Wheeler”. Many probably don’t know they are doing it or understand why it’s annoying so here’s the low down.

Half wheeling is when you ride half a wheel or more ahead of the person you are cycling with… Half wheeling is an annoying cycling fau pax that should be avoided at all cost, half wheeling you riding partner is like saying, “your rubbish and I’m putting my front wheel ahead of your to remind you of that”…

Sure some days your going to feel like a million bucks but resist the urge to kick it up a notch, the guy riding beside you might not have just downed a Red Bull or may have done almost double the amount of km’s you have.

Don’t be a “Half wheel Harry” your buddies and strangers alike will thank you for it.

[shawn]

I love this thread.....

My wife and i spend most of the time on a tandem, then again she is the cyclist more so than me.....i am the one that gets shouted at........OUCH... i know.

Even on the tandem she is the captain and i am the stoker because she says she is a female driver and generally they are better drivers than us men.

When i met her and she was cycling so i had to conform to her way of life and DAMMIT i love it....

 

Let the flaming begin

[TNT1]

I quite liked this piece:

 

Half-Wheeling Bastard

 

Posted on July 18, 2011

 

Yesterday’s post reminded me of what it means to be a HWB, or half-wheeling bastard. Essentially, when riding in a group there’s lots of unspoken things that you have to take into account. be upfront and timely with your hand signals, use some fricken mudguards if the roads are covered with slurry and it’s raining. hold your line, don’t let gaps open, that sort of thing. however, one of the worst offences is to half-wheel. this nefarious practice consists of edging your wheel in front of a friend/clubmate/enemy when riding in parallel. they then have to speed up a bit to keep level. this leads to a steady increase in pace until one of you pops. when me and steve are both en forme, it’s sometimes hard not to half-wheel a little bit, simply because we’re both riding tempo and neither wants the other one to think that the other one is weak, or suffering, or no longer en forme. this happened once when we were zigzagging up and down some climbs in the brecon beacons. as i mentioned in a previous post, even when riding with best friends, it’s still rewarding to see someone else is weaker than you are at that moment in time – throw in a tailwind and a climb and you may as well be eddy merckx, the cannibal, the scourge of cyclists everywhere, at least for a brief moment. this is the nature of cycling, to a certain degree. anyway, when we went to ventoux we had a ‘no half-wheeling’ pact, lest something catastrophic might happen. on the upcoming tour de douchebag there won’t hopefully be any need for a half-wheeling moratorium because we’ll be riding 120 miles per day; survival will be the main objective, not futile and machiavellian displays of sub-puncheur prowess.

 

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[Selous Scout (aka LegTrap)]

Firstly,my wife is quite a bit younger than me and secondly,she is stronger than me on the bike.I wish she would ride with me every now & then ggrrrrrrrrrr

[Bike Mob]

Rules

#1) Help your wife put her bike on the car.

#2) instruct her on how to remove it and refit it to come home.

#3) wave goodbye and wish her a merry ride

#4) Go on your own ride where you may concentrate on bleeding from every pore in silence

#5) nevermention her attire, form, skill level or lack of it

[Cejay]

Got the same problem

[Mats]

Okay so if I had a hubby and he was riding with me...

1. Do not push me up the hill unless I am puking or almost dead.
   
2. I will not wait for you if I get to the top of the hill before you - be a man and stay with me
   But if you reach the top before me you will have to wait for me.
   
3. You will need to fix all our mechanicals - I do not like to get my hands dirty.
   
4. You will also need to carry all the tools and the extra water bottle that I will use during the ride as I only have one bottle cage on my MTB.
   
5. Take note that if you dare to sit in my slip on any road I will divorce you!
   

[Cippo]

I suggested my wife start riding and she said NO. Phew!

[CAAD4]

Yoh! I missed the word "with" when I first saw this thread...

[gongmech]

For some more tips check out the Gender Blender column in TREAD Mag

[j'sbella]

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