OY! Mothers!! (Yes this IS cycling related)...

[Trek420]

Have fun riding with your Mom, gear down, slow down, take the computer off the bike and just have a fun ride. Show your Mom she can have a good time on the bike, that's her idea of a good time.

Is there a route that's short, easy maybe stop for coffee in the middle or just enjoy a view? Don't lecture, don't train, just show her riding is fun and take it from there. If she likes it she'll ride more. If you lecture, show off, complain about the bike and she may stop.

Once she sees that it's fun and that it's a connection to you, she will have questions and lucky her she has you to answer them.

Like you I love my (also Duck on Wheels) Mom so much. There's little if anything that I know more about than her. It's not only that she's brilliant, and the older I get the smarter I know my Mom is. I'm sure a lot of us feel this way. It's the way she organizes, presents and retains ideas and information.

My Mom never learned to ride a bike, as far as I know the only time she rode was on the back of a tandem when courting with my Dad.

But when I was little she taught me how to ride mine Riding with family is a great bonding experience, you're lucky to be able to go on a ride with your Mom.

Fitness is different at any age. My Mom gardens. After my Dad died when she moved to a smaller place in town she noticed that her fitness level was down. Instead of gardening, farming really 3 acres she now had a standard city back yard.

So she took action. She's 85 BTW. She didn't wait to have it prescribed.

Now in addition to gardening she walks. I have a hard time keeping up but whenever I visit we try to enjoy a walk together, or if there's an errand in town we walk to it.

Mom's my inspiration. I'd like to be as fit as possible as long as I can. This enables her to continue to pretty much do whatever she wants or needs to do at an age others are much impaired.