Pressure from family to pack it in - Cycle Commuting ?

[potsy]

My mrs was fine about me cycling until I started showing her some of the videos of Bentmikey's and Magnatom's I don't show her any now a days
My mum still worries, especially when the weather is bad, but I think most people have gotten used to me cycling, get comments if I go to work in the car off colleagues.

Since I commute off road a lot more now, I am in more danger of getting bitten by a dog or knocked into the river by a runaway jogger anyway

 

[SavageHoutkop]

Mr SHK and I both commute so no
My mother I think would be exceptionally happy for me not to cycle...
Having said that we have a fairly short commute and both of us have been left-hooked (and come off the bike) before - he was completely unscathed whereas I had a nice bruise and x-rays to check nothing broken.

 

[tongskie01]

Any of you get it ?

My sister has recently said - "Why don't you stop riding to work, I'd rather have an alive brother than a dead or injured one?" "What ever" was my reply !.

This came out of the very close scrape I had on Tuesday, and also me just behind another cyclist getting hit - the accident was near home, so school friends and my brother saw the ambulance, and I was also spotted by some of the kids going to school - 'that's Anthony isn't it ?' as they drove past.

My wife stopped me in the late 90's when I was left hooked at about 25 mph - I did a very good impression of superman, flew 30-40 feet, and luckily, landed between scaffolding poles outside a chemists, the bike wasn't so lucky, crashing into them writing it off. I suffered some fractures in my hand. That then led to 8 or so years not commuting by bike (I also moved jobs).

Upon getting back into commuting I had warned the wife about the accident possibility, and only just managed 18 months before my 'biggy' that I'm still fighting the legal battle, over 3 years later.

My missus is yet to say anything, but it's causing tension

And you ? [/quote
same here when i was hit by car last 2 months ago. no point arguing with them. why not try a recumbent. in my experience if i had been riding a recumbent i wouldn't been hit. i had been incident free for almost 3 thousand miles now. and fallin off it with no injury...i was unlucky with my upright. 2 incidents in the last 6 months.

 

[Dayvo]

Of course, everyone notices the sudden tragic accident at 35, but it's harder to realise that cycling caused you to not die at 70.

Quite right. We don't cycle/exercise to stay young and healthy - we cycle/exercise to become old and healthy.

 

[Ethan]

Noone presures me to stop. My mum and girlfriend both tell me to be safe very regularly, but thats it.
To be fair I dont think either of them really realise some of the nonsense we put up with as cyclists, maybe if they were closely passed while cycling, or almost hooked they'd soon want me off the bike

It wouldn't happen though - Nor would I let them make me stop. Like someone else said, if you can almost lose your life stepping onto a football pitch for essentially being 'too fit', why cut ever single risk you take, no matter how minor? I'd rather continue doing something I enjoy, and the fact I enjoy it is the very reason they'd never ask me to stop

 

[VamP]

My mum worries, but not extremely so. I guess compared to rock climbing she thinks it's safer. Who am I to disillusion her.

My wife to be cycles and always has done. No issues there. I guess I'm lucky.

 

[dan_bo]

Tell you what foss get rid of the push bikes and roll up on a GSXR1100RR. R.

 

[Friz]

On a positive note - I've no one to worry about me cycling.

On a negative note - I've no one to worry about me cycling.

 

[BentMikey]

I've gone fixed to slow the top end speed - it's hard going much faster than 24 mph on the flat with a tail wind. You can get much higher on a road bike, and downhill. 43 mph on the road bike on one hil, 32 pedalling my booty off on the fixed.

LOL! A recumbent's the wrong way to go then. I hit 40mph on pretty much every commute, and it's not even a very big hill. Then again, apart from the speed, a recumbent is probably quite a bit safer than an upright bike.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The MRS doesn't put me under any pressure to stop, she will complain about the Sunday Rides sometimes, that usually because I've done too many one after another and shes feeling p***** off about the time I'm spending on the bike.

 

[biggs682]

must admit i would not fancy commuting on busy roads and i try and avoid any main roads when riding any time

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Her indoors fully understands and just asks me to be careful.
We both know that without cycling I probably would be overweight and have missed my heart problem and popped it from a heart stack in the next year.
Cycling is also a great de-stressed shouting at crap drivers.

 

[skudupnorth]

My family worry about me when i ride but it won't stop me due to it being a way of life for me.She does get worried when i do the college run which is an 80 round trip along country lanes,but it's my way of getting a weeks worth of mileage in one go !!!!!

 

[fossyant]

Tell you what foss get rid of the push bikes and roll up on a GSXR1100RR. R.

Oh yeh.. 1000 percent not happy. Love a big motor bike, but many of us are loonies enough with leg power.

 

[Bluenite]

Show them what your worth on the insurance policy