Do you prefer to do it alone or with your partner?

[growingvegetables]

You wouldn't get my partner on a bike for love nor money!

+1

Only once, EVER, did I get my (now ex-)partner on to a bike - on the back end of the tandem. H***'s b***s - I should have been arrested. Her banshee shrieks had the residents of Killingbeck Cemetery phoning up to register complaints.

 

[theclaud]

You're lips are sealed, right?

Yeah, right...

 

[dellzeqq]

You're lips are sealed, right?

some of us might feel we have a civic duty..........

 

[Amanda P]

It's great to tour with Mrs Uncle Phil. We've done it quite a lot, although I think you'd have to be quite confident in the strength of your relationship before trying it for the first time.

We also sometimes cycle together at weekends, on organised rides or just for ourselves. And we've got a tandem too...

 

[Crackle]

Mostly on my own but as a family we use the bikes for trips out and on holidays and did our first family tour this year, which is nearly last year now.

 

[tyred]

As an eligible bachelor, I have no choice but to do it alone.

 

[pepecat]

Usually alone (longer rides) but mrs pepecat has now got a bike and is fairly keen on using it, so for 'recreational rides' i go with her around the park, but for 'proper' cycling, i go alone!

 

[brokenflipflop]

Bought the wife a bike off ebay 4 weeks ago and a shedload of gear for her (shoes/cleats/jersey etc etc) and we went out on saturday for the first time (only time). I really want her to enjoy it as much as me but trying to get her to use SPD's AND STI shifters for the first time severely tested our marriage. Just when I thought she'd got it, she stopped half way up a steep hill, chain still on the big chainring.....OH FFS SHIFT DOWN, I'VE TOLD YOU 50 TIMES FOR CHRIST"S SAKE.....YOU GOT ME THE FECKIN' THING I DIDN'T WANT IT I KNEW YOU'D MOAN IF I COULDN'T DO IT.....IT'S NOT FECKIN' HARD, NOW WE'RE STUCK HALF WAY UP THE FECKIN' HILL, YOU'LL HAVE TO GO BACK DOWN THE HILL AND CHANGE DOWN, THEN COME BACK UP...RIGHT! OK!.....RACHEL, RAAACHEL, RAAAAAACH..COME BACK, WHERE YOU GOING........FECK OFF....RACH, BUT I LOVE YOU....FEEECK OOOOF !.......shoot !

 

[Peteaud]

Bought the wife a bike off ebay 4 weeks ago and a shedload of gear for her (shoes/cleats/jersey etc etc) and we went out on saturday for the first time (only time). I really want her to enjoy it as much as me but trying to get her to use SPD's AND STI shifters for the first time severely tested our marriage. Just when I thought she'd got it, she stopped half way up a steep hill, chain still on the big chainring.....OH FFS SHIFT DOWN, I'VE TOLD YOU 50 TIMES FOR CHRIST"S SAKE.....YOU GOT ME THE FECKIN' THING I DIDN'T WANT IT I KNEW YOU'D MOAN IF I COULDN'T DO IT.....IT'S NOT FECKIN' HARD, NOW WE'RE STUCK HALF WAY UP THE FECKIN' HILL, YOU'LL HAVE TO GO BACK DOWN THE HILL AND CHANGE DOWN, THEN COME BACK UP...RIGHT! OK!.....RACHEL, RAAACHEL, RAAAAAACH..COME BACK, WHERE YOU GOING........FECK OFF....RACH, BUT I LOVE YOU....FEEECK OOOOF !.......shoot !

pmsl

then you say, "whats wrong" answer - "nothing"

1.30 am "well you started moaning blah blah blah"

been there, many times