Problem with Significant other on bike trails.

[Veronica]

I think you need to be a bike Nazi with your kids. Unless they are the only ones using the trail, being on the wrong side can lead to accidents. It's amazing how much damage a kid's bike can do at low speeds to a steel frame.

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

I don't have a good solution either. Along with Muirenn's thread about the wet shorts in public ... DH got a road bike a couple of years ago and I really wanted to encourage him, but I wound up being really discouraging to him because it was in equal parts terrifying and infuriating. He rides like a 9-year-old boy, up and down on sidewalks, in and out of traffic, hugging the curb. It's bad enough when you're in a group of experienced cyclists with testosterone flowing (and that is pretty dang bad). When someone doesn't have the skills, and when the massive trove of traffic awareness they have from hundreds of thousands of miles on motos goes right out the window when they don't have a motor underneath them ... I just won't ride road with him. Tootling around on our commuters is as good as it gets with us, sadly.

[Skippyak]

I would get off the trail and ride on the road. Trails here are not for road bikers. I might cut through a trail to avoid roadworks or something but I pretty much tootle and expect stupidity and children and horses and skateboarders. He is riding like that because he isn't taking it seriously which is fair enough on a trail. Does he have a road bike?

[goldfinch]

I would get off the trail and ride on the road. Trails here are not for road bikers. I might cut through a trail to avoid roadworks or something but I pretty much tootle and expect stupidity and children and horses and skateboarders. He is riding like that because he isn't taking it seriously which is fair enough on a trail. Does he have a road bike?

If I recall correctly I believe kajero lives in a large community where there are many paved trails used by all kinds of cyclists, including roadies. Most of the trails have a separate lane for walkers. They are very, very busy.

[kajero]

Thanks Goldfinch. You are right about where I live and the trails.
Note: My SO is 82 and rides an e-assist bike. They are not motorized and you have to pedal to make them go. He doesn't like to ride on roads because of his age. I am working on trail etiquette with him. It IS getting better.

[aviatrix58]

Train until you're faster than him and then drop him on a ride.

[kajero]

Train until you're faster than him and then drop him on a ride.

How am I going to do that? He beats me up all the hills. LOL

[Skippyak]

Note: My SO is 82 and rides an e-assist bike. They are not motorized and you have to pedal to make them go. He doesn't like to ride on roads because of his age. I am working on trail etiquette with him. It IS getting better.

I think that is rather pertinent info. At 82 others can cut him a break. If he has got to 82 by being a little ornery, he has done OK.