Wedding Ring

davidmarsden

Sorry if someone has posted this before.

I find my wedding ring slips a lot when cycling especically when wet.
Does anyone have any good tips to prevent this with taking it off?

thanks

gtvlusso

Gloves or mitts.....

Or get it fitted better!

Kieran_Burns

shave your finger (if needed!) and wrap some tape (wider than the ring )

MonkeyMonster

Surely as a weight reducing measure its taken off? 8)

attica

Simply do what I did, have an off at 25mph, slap the ground so hard with your left hand that you halfway trash your wedding ring (yet bizarrely get no road rash on your hand) and then stop wearing it for fear of ruining it completely.

sarajoy

Get skinny so that your knuckles end up bigger than the bits in between?

I have fairly practical meaty hands which seem to expand and contract with temperature - depending on the time of day, how worked up I am, or hot hot/cold it is, I find rings either too tight or falling off! Have given up, now...

prawny

I put my wedding ring in one of the smaller pockets in my bag, it usually stays in there all day though now because I forget to put it back on, it gets me earache.

I'm tempted to have one tattooed on, it would be more comfy and it would be a nice show of dedication i think. Mrs prawny doesn't agree.

Matt.K

prawny wrote:

I'm tempted to have one tattooed on, it would be more comfy and it would be a nice show of dedication i think. Mrs prawny doesn't agree.

A bloke out my work has one a bit like that. Where the ring would be is here name in fancy writing.
But then he's a mechanic and isn't allowed jewellery at work so spends most of his time without the ring on.

Matt.K

prawny wrote:

I'm tempted to have one tattooed on, it would be more comfy and it would be a nice show of dedication i think. Mrs prawny doesn't agree.

A bloke out my work has one a bit like that. Where the ring would be is here name in fancy writing.
But then he's a mechanic and isn't allowed jewellery at work so spends most of his time without the ring on.

attica

My Dad refused to wear a wedding ring after a friend of his lost his finger jumping over a gate. His wedding ring caught a nail and that was that. Ouch!

georgee

get divorced?

asprilla

I didn't bother getting one, as i'd just find it an annoyance most of the time.

Kiblams

You guys have got me worried now, will be getting a wedding ring (after an annoying day of wedding things :P ) early next year and now Im worried about cycling wearing it :?

I can't possible take it off daily, my memory is terrible!

prawny

I' was tempted to put mine on a chain, but then where will I put the chain when I'm on my bike.

Monkeypump

Micropore or some other surgical tape.

ride_whenever

get a chain an put it round your neck when not wearing it under your clothes.

Kiblams

I wear my grandads ring on lace around my neck and that is where it has been for almost 10 years now (replaced the lace a few times) but surely death would result from the missus for not wearing a wedding ring on your hand? :?

Wallace1492

prawny wrote:

I' was tempted to put mine on a chain, but then where will I put the chain when I'm on my bike.

Put the chain round the big coggy things near the pedals and through the small coggy things on the back wheel, the turn the pedals forward, and hey presto!!

verloren

You could try pop-riveting it to your finger. Just a thought...

UndercoverElephant

Or, you could get it resized. Or put on weight, that works too. When I got married, I was about 11 stone, and my ring used to be rather precarious in swimming pools. Now, 11 years later, I'm nearer 14 stone, and it requires a lot of wiggling to even force it off my finger.

CiB

Get one half a size smaller than it should be. It'll go on easy enough but only comes off if your digits are devilishly cold and you wiggle it a fair amount.

antfly

Get a divorce.....

palaeobore

I usually just take my rings off whilst I'm cycling (I keep them in a small jewellery wrap with the rest of the jewellery that I'll be wearing that day) and put them back on later. I realise that some people never take their wedding rings off but the only time I did cycle wearing rings I trashed both my wedding ring and my engagement ring and had to be without them for a couple of weeks whilst they got mended.

roger_merriman

I ended up geting my wedding ring reduced at least twice as I often go out in the cold, once had the ring drop off...

comftable now though and no worries on the bikes.

fossyant

Erm..this happened to me...fingers thinned out with commuting loads, ring became loose - usually just took it off. Ended up losing it when gardening, fell off - never been found - deep doo doo's, but not replaced it. Still have my original ring, but that's a bit tight.

Not too fond of any jewellery - just found the ring dug in to my finger/uncomfy on the bike.

pastryboy

mine always goes on a necklace - seems to be the most convenient way.

emilyhr

hello all first post so please be nice

I use these as my wedding ring feels a bit loose when cycling:

http://www.theringsaver.com/home.htm

They look a bit naff but I would rather keep wedding ring on, so I know where it is - always worried it will fall out of my rucksack!

great for swimming as well.

snellgrove

Once you've got ring/rings on your hands, try some gloves on that fit with them.

Simples!

I've got some 661's which seem to get along just fine with my wedding ring & thumb ring. Rings tend to sit at the end of the fingerless finger bits, in other words, just inside. Is comfy enough.

alfablue

Why do you all want to wear tags? You aren't possessions (are you?). Free yourselves!

Jay dubbleU

I once lost mine on a cold day in the mountains - walked back down the trail to try and find it - no luck - got back to uk and had to confess to Mrs JW - I got the 'It doesn't matter' treatment to the point where I was about to order a new one - went to Scotland - and it turned up at the bottom of my pack - lucky or what

attica

emilyhr wrote:

hello all first post so please be nice

I use these as my wedding ring feels a bit loose when cycling:

http://www.theringsaver.com/home.htm

They look a bit naff but I would rather keep wedding ring on, so I know where it is - always worried it will fall out of my rucksack!

great for swimming as well.

Hey Emily, welcome.

I think you've done rather well in setting your stall out as a married woman right from the start, take note DDD and Don Don.

Please don't let that scare you off though, like planet Earth we are "Mostly Harmless"

and mainly geeks of each gender