Please don't do this boys....!

ride_whenever

My gf is very fortunate in that she either rides my carbon 456 or whatever demo bike we have in the shop. The only downside is that she now wants a v. expensive carbon FS 'of some description' for mtbing...

Mrs Toast

I'm 5ft 2, t'husband is 6ft 7. Sadly sharing bikes isn't an option - he'd look like he's riding a BMX and I'd look like I'm riding a gate.

I've got the most expensive bike in the house, but he has more of them! :P

bails87

Maybe the husband had been nagged by the wife to take her out MTBing, and he enjoyed it as his only time away from her.....give her a rubbish bike, you can be pretty sure she's not going to do it again and he gets his 'man-time' back

miss notax

bails87 wrote:

Maybe the husband had been nagged by the wife to take her out MTBing, and he enjoyed it as his only time away from her.....give her a rubbish bike, you can be pretty sure she's not going to do it again and he gets his 'man-time' back

Ha ha, looks like I completely missed that angle!!

pilsburypie

women ride bikes?

idiotdogbrain

My OH has a brand new Camber Elite courtesy of her work's C2W scheme - I only got my used Trance X4 about 4 months after, and hers is still better than mine!

As she put it - you want me to come out on the bikes? Fine, I'd better have a good one then!

Pirahna

My wife does just as much riding as me but isn't as strong, so she gets the lightweight bling bits and I make do (sort of). Makes it more enjoyable for me to have her keep up if we're going to ride together. Plus I get to spend on bling, I just don't get to use it.

lg18

Here's food for thought re. girls not keeping up with the blokes and the issue of nice versus crappy bikes:
I got myself a v nice light MTB, 10.5kg. But I only weigh 56kg
My boyfriend weighs 92kg. So, all things being equal (which they're not - men tend to have higher proportion of muscle than women), for him to have an "equivalent" weight of bike, his bike would need to weigh about 16kg!
I don't think he'd be too pleased about that and certainly wouldn't be able to keep up with me.

So, we really can't expect a smaller lighter person to keep up unless they have a considerably lighter bike than the bigger musclier people.

Could this be a factor in why some girls don't enjoy MTBing as much?

Lucy

lochussie

It's only fair to comprimise. Let your ladyfriend have your 6" bike on the ups and then swap and give her your hardtail on the downs.

bails87

lg18 wrote:

Here's food for thought re. girls not keeping up with the blokes and the issue of nice versus crappy bikes:
I got myself a v nice light MTB, 10.5kg. But I only weigh 56kg
My boyfriend weighs 92kg. So, all things being equal (which they're not - men tend to have higher proportion of muscle than women), for him to have an "equivalent" weight of bike, his bike would need to weigh about 16kg!
I don't think he'd be too pleased about that and certainly wouldn't be able to keep up with me.

So, we really can't expect a smaller lighter person to keep up unless they have a considerably lighter bike than the bigger musclier people.

Could this be a factor in why some girls don't enjoy MTBing as much?

Lucy

Hmmm, dunno. I weigh 65kg and am probably fitter and faster than most of the other guys I ride with, who all weigh more than me. And it seems to be that the more they weigh, the bigger the difference!

Just because someone weighs 50% more than you doesn't mean that they're 50% stronger/fitter/faster. But it does mean they've got 50% more weight to lug around.

turnerjohn

miss notax wrote:

.blitz wrote:

Been there, done that

It's not what you ride it's how you ride it*


*allegedly

She was riding it like a lady who was a bit p!ssed off she was struggling on a shopper whilst her hubby has blasted up hill on his nice spangley mountain bike

maybe on a proper bike she'd have kicked his ass ? :shock: !

Thewaylander

Bout to say i don't buy into the weight thing so much there.

Mostly because i've had my arse handed to me by a couplle of ladies i know on the downs and up's. And the extra muscle is only of so much use on the downs, the rest is far more about technique.

If a lady is 5-10% slower than there partner maybe i would take that but anything more, thats more to do with personal determination to be fit

t4tomo

I'm a true gent, I take the Mrs out on a Tandem, that way she has to keep up.

Before anyone else raises obkection - yes very light trail stuff only, can't exactly single track it on a tandem!

Thewaylander

t4tomo wrote:

I'm a true gent, I take the Mrs out on a Tandem, that way she has to keep up.

Before anyone else raises obkection - yes very light trail stuff only, can't exactly single track it on a tandem!

ooooooo but it might be bloody good fun lol

getonyourbike

Thewaylander wrote:

t4tomo wrote:

I'm a true gent, I take the Mrs out on a Tandem, that way she has to keep up.

Before anyone else raises obkection - yes very light trail stuff only, can't exactly single track it on a tandem!

ooooooo but it might be bloody good fun lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbxSK5PCSo8

there you are

getonyourbike

Thewaylander wrote:

t4tomo wrote:

I'm a true gent, I take the Mrs out on a Tandem, that way she has to keep up.

Before anyone else raises obkection - yes very light trail stuff only, can't exactly single track it on a tandem!

ooooooo but it might be bloody good fun lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbxSK5PCSo8

there you are

turnerjohn

lg18 wrote:

Here's food for thought re. girls not keeping up with the blokes and the issue of nice versus crappy bikes:
I got myself a v nice light MTB, 10.5kg. But I only weigh 56kg
My boyfriend weighs 92kg. So, all things being equal (which they're not - men tend to have higher proportion of muscle than women), for him to have an "equivalent" weight of bike, his bike would need to weigh about 16kg!
I don't think he'd be too pleased about that and certainly wouldn't be able to keep up with me.

So, we really can't expect a smaller lighter person to keep up unless they have a considerably lighter bike than the bigger musclier people.

Could this be a factor in why some girls don't enjoy MTBing as much?

Lucy

In cycling (as a lot of sports) its power to weight thats the most important factor.....lot of muscle = lot more weight = harder work !
Sometimes being small has its advantages
The pros weight very little (just look at Wiggo for his weight his near anorexic) by my life is he fast ! Pantani "The Pirate" was small but kept well up with the big boys (someones now bound to mention the issue with the drugs !)

beany123

who would possibly want to go mountain biking with there missis???? imo wife can stay at home and leave me have fun with the lads.......

sheepsteeth

i donated my old stumpy to the wife and she loves it. its still my bike of course and i still prefer riding alone but its nice on the odd occasion when we go out together and i love it too much to sell even though it doesnt get ridden by me that often.

roger_merriman

miss notax wrote:

Riding the Brechfa blue trail at the weekend, and about 2/3rds of the way around we caught up with a lady we had seen leaving the car park riding with her hubby. She was clearly not having a particularly fun time on a fireroad climb, on a rigid shopper-style bike complete with newspaper rack on the back. Notax rode alongside for a friendly chat and to say 'well done' for tackling the climb, and it transpires that her hubby (already at the top) was a keen MTBer with three bikes to choose from! You would have thought he could have lent one of his bikes to her :shock:

I'm not interested in picking a fight about people being able to ride whatever they want (which they obviously are), but from our outsider perspective it seemed a little harsh for hubby to be blasting up the hill on one of his nice MTB's whilst his wife slogged up on a shopper! Goodness knows how she managed the jumpy bits :shock:

Anyway, take heed chaps, not the best way to get your wife into mountain biking....!

Heh when you do see couples out, does tend to be like that, in swinley the lady has the cheap hire bike and he has a half decent one. also get in the royal parks.

leaflite

Are you sure that the husband wasnt either extremely tall or extremely short? His 3 bikes might not have fitted her.

miss notax

leaflite wrote:

Are you sure that the husband wasnt either extremely tall or extremely short? His 3 bikes might not have fitted her.

He looked normal sized to me!!

welshkev

t4tomo wrote:

I'm a true gent, I take the Mrs out on a Tandem, that way she has to keep up.

Before anyone else raises obkection - yes very light trail stuff only, can't exactly single track it on a tandem!

you say that, but a while back i saw someone at cwmcarn on a tandem!!!!!! :shock:

Silversladey

welshkev wrote:

t4tomo wrote:

I'm a true gent, I take the Mrs out on a Tandem, that way she has to keep up.

Before anyone else raises obkection - yes very light trail stuff only, can't exactly single track it on a tandem!

you say that, but a while back i saw someone at cwmcarn on a tandem!!!!!! :shock:

I got over taken by a couple on a tandem at the Brecon Beast :oops:

They were absolutely flying

wobbem

My first wife mentioned she wanted to join me in my new activities-
I enrolled her in a cooking class
- she left me.
My second wife also described similar interests,
I bought her a Dyson,....
she also left me
My 3rd wife also expressed such interests, she got a Dyson and a cookery class and a diamond necklace....
sigh
Also left me,
they all expressed I had commitment issues.
I agree- I married my bikes.
Still going strong after 100 happy years.....