Funniest conversations with non-cyclists.

[Kubla]

My story is not that as funny as yours, but I'll share:

When it was clear that my comfort bike wasn't what I needed to pursue cycling at the level I had in mind, I told my significant other that I'd taken the plunge and bought a road bike...

John: What?! Now you are going to leave me in the dust on my comfort bike!

Me: You spend a lot of time on the boat on weekends and aren't around to ride with...this will be for my solo rides. When we ride together I'll still use my comfort bike-if it will make you feel better.

John: But...with a road bike, you are going to be able to go faster and for longer rides.

Me: So???? Like I said, I'll be riding alone-I don't see how that threatens you.

John: Um...well...so are you going to end up being Forrest Gump-on a bike?

[Biciclista]

oh Kubla. hope it turned out all right.

[Kubla]

oh Kubla. hope it turned out all right.

Oh yes...all is well. Originally we bought the comfort bikes just to putter around with.

It just happened to turn into more than a casual activity for me-whereas he has his boat to occupy most of his free time during the warmer weather.

[lilly99]

Hi Kubla,

perhaps you could surprise John with a tandem bike ride, sounds pretty romantic and makes the time cycling together even more special.

just a thought

[marni]

when I die and go to that other place I will be the stoker on a tandem bike with my DH. He is the reason I so enjoy riding solo. He is a love and a dear sweet man and my best friend but deep down inside he has a real problem with T poisoning when we ride together.

If I ride in front he insists he is slowing me down and to just go at my regular speed, but then he is wiped after 10 miles of keeping up with me and I am irritated at having to constantly slow down a bit for him. If he leads he will kill himself for 10 miles to keep " up to my speed" and then bail. At which point I am definitely fed up with him surging and rabbiting to stay "up to my speed."

Our solution is to ride together somehow for10iles and then I peel off and do another 30-50 miles and he dawdles his way home with a stop for coffee.

I am just convinced that wall paper hanging and riding more than 10 miles together unless it is on a charity ride with lots of other people around he can pace with, are just things that are not in our future

[redrhodie]

when I die and go to that other place I will be the stoker on a tandem bike with my DH.

Ahhhh, heaven.

[Kubla]

Hi Kubla,

perhaps you could surprise John with a tandem bike ride, sounds pretty romantic and makes the time cycling together even more special.

just a thought

Lilly99, There are no tandem bikes in our future, I'm afraid. We tried a tandem kayak once during a watersport demo day, and it did not go well for us. They call them "divorce boats" for a reason. <LOL>

[Susan]

Nice stories

Last week we where on a bike tour in a quite large group of 6. This tour has a really nice and long downhill, so we where all on full suspension bikes, some even enduros, everybody had Pads, backpacks with water and food and the guys even wore downhill helmets along with thick clothing because it gets really cold here in November.

On one spot I had to stop and wait for a group of hikers to pass us by. While walking by an old guy asked me: "Do you have a bell?" (I don't, on my MTB.) "Of course you don't! So you could save another 10 grams (less than half an ounce) of weight!"



(I don't know why he would have liked me to have a bell... maybe I could have been standing there, waiting for 2 minutes while ringing at them to speed them up...)

[Eden]

two ladies: (last night in the snow) - you're not going to ride that tonight are you!

Me: (3/4 of the way home, had stopped to knock some ice out of my brakes) - H&ll yes, I'm moving and they're (the cars stuck spinning out on the hill) not going anywhere!

I also had someone yell something like "for gods sake be careful" - silly man.... it was probably safer out last night than usual.... fewer cars and they were all going very slowly.... Yes, I could slip on some ice and fall if I wasn't careful, but I'm a good bike handler (no I didn't fall down at all). I'm positive that it was safer to not be in a car last night..... I wasn't at all likely to crash into a tree or roll over and if my mode of transportation got stuck, I was not only already dressed to handle the weather, I could throw it over my shoulder until I got to a better spot....