My girlfriend's an anticyclist
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Moonlight
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Don't Wiggle sell upgrade chips for girlfriends? Be careful you don't order the swim/run ones though.
There's a strip club called Wiggle near my new college, but my friend said he prefers real Wiggle because you get to ride the products for longer..
That did happen by the way, you can't make that s**t up.
There's a strip club called Wiggle near my new college, but my friend said he prefers real Wiggle because you get to ride the products for longer..
That did happen by the way, you can't make that s**t up.
Noodley
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simoncc said:
That's what Mrs Noodley does. She has her horse. As do the Noodlettes.
They seem to think I should be interested....but I am not. I did try. But it's not a thing that interests me.
Mrs Noodley is not interested in my tales of derring-do on my bike. "Okay dear" is the standard response.
Dayvo
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buggi! Did I mention that I cycle a lot and was a prop forward for 20 years! 
Don't look like LA, though!
The reason for wanting a cycling girlfriend (partner) is that cycling occupies a lot of time; it's not like going out once a week for half an hour round the block, as my girlfriend seems to think. When we met she said she enjoyed cycling; we have cycled ZERO metres together in one year! Her idea of cycling is getting on her (city) bike, cycling to the, er, city, lock it up and go shopping!
There's no chance of a cycling holiday; and it seriously restricts other holidays if you're in France, Italy, Spain etc. and want to hire a bike for a day; the girlfriend/wife will not be happy.
So, yes, compatibility IS important.
Don't look like LA, though!
The reason for wanting a cycling girlfriend (partner) is that cycling occupies a lot of time; it's not like going out once a week for half an hour round the block, as my girlfriend seems to think. When we met she said she enjoyed cycling; we have cycled ZERO metres together in one year! Her idea of cycling is getting on her (city) bike, cycling to the, er, city, lock it up and go shopping!
There's no chance of a cycling holiday; and it seriously restricts other holidays if you're in France, Italy, Spain etc. and want to hire a bike for a day; the girlfriend/wife will not be happy.
So, yes, compatibility IS important.
What, everyone owns a car now?buggi said:
I'm not trying to turn my girlfriend into a cyclist, not am I trying to turn her into my cycling partner. Like I say, it would be nice just to occasionally go for a dawdle to the park with a picnic on a sunny day. It's not like I'm asking her to don a lycra suit and do a 50 mile training ride with me. If she won't compromise and try something that she doesn't normally do, why should I do anything with her that she wants to do?
I thought of that already - I was even thinking of turning up with a woman from time to time. Something like this: "Hi darling this is Emma, I said she could come in and have a cup of tea, 'cos she's got a puncture and has no tools to fix it, will you stick the kettle on while I sort her inner tube out?"or... if you really like your partner and you really want her to go with you, you could try this underhand tactic... start harping on about some chick at your local cycling club... don't go overboard, just say some new chick has taken up cycling and she's really nice... i swear she'll be out like a shot to check out her "competition"
I dunno, I'm sure she would have said when we talked about it. We've rode together once in the 5 years we've been together (that was this Spring I think) and I didn't take her anywhere with a hill. I think it's more to do with the fact that she thinks cycling is this massive hobby of mine and also because none of her friends cycle. She seems the kind of person who, for most things, only seems to go out of her way to do something if her friends are doing it.
Keith Oates
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MessenJah, seems to me you and the GF need to have a long and direct talk which goes something likes this "Bye"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When me and MrsP got married 27 years ago MrsP couldn't even ride a bike
after a little persuasion and some loud words she managed to get the hang ofit. Since then she has been out with me on the bike about 30 times, not a very good yearly average. She will come out on a warm sunny day, if we get them, for a 10 mile pootle, as long as it includes lunch at a pub and the ride is not hilly, which around Barnet is nigh on impossible. I don't mind that she rarely rides her bike as it leaves me to go out with my mates for a thrash whenever I want, decorating and other domestic chores notwithstanding.
after a little persuasion and some loud words she managed to get the hang ofit. Since then she has been out with me on the bike about 30 times, not a very good yearly average. She will come out on a warm sunny day, if we get them, for a 10 mile pootle, as long as it includes lunch at a pub and the ride is not hilly, which around Barnet is nigh on impossible. I don't mind that she rarely rides her bike as it leaves me to go out with my mates for a thrash whenever I want, decorating and other domestic chores notwithstanding.Don't worry about it. She knows it makes sense and is probably just being a bit stubborn, sounds very much like my ex who refused to do anything but the odd canal pootle because she saw cycling as 'your thing'. Now when I speak to her she's extolling the virtues of cycling to work and to the station etc. and how she's really toning up
She just didn't want to be seen as doing it because I did
My better half now has three bikes despite only ever riding for a couple of years when she lived in Belgium as a kid.
She just didn't want to be seen as doing it because I did
My better half now has three bikes despite only ever riding for a couple of years when she lived in Belgium as a kid.
