The guy I had been living with for the past two years and who introduced me to cycling (actually it's more like his family did but he likes to take the credit for it) left me at the end of June. The breakup is not cycling related, but I was quite sure it annoyed him that I had gotten quite passionate about it, and possibily more knowledgeable than he was on the topic.

In August he announced to me that he was going out with some other girl. I know her, she's not really sporty so I made some smarty comment about taking her camping. He replied that maybe he'd convince her (or something like that), but then added: "I will not let her buy a bike though."

Now, to borrow from a recent tread, "that's a guy who's not very safe about his masculinity!"