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Anyone ever managed to get out on a ride with a lady friend as part of the romancing process?
I wish, been with the same lady friend for 7 years and still not managed to drag her out for a single ride!
My girlfriend and I have been on a few rides, she's also got me on the back of horse in quid pro quo.
She's a right little trooper though, 3800ft round hayfield, 2 laps of llandegla red and god knows what she did while we were at the gisburn enduro, she pottered about all day riding random bits of trail!
Yup. Be careful and make sure she is a keeper when you do. I proposed when we were out mountain biking and it worked!
Ride all the time with my GF- we are both training for ironman this September. Also MTBd and adventure raced together. Our first 'date' was a run which ended in a&e with torn ankle ligaments for me so that set the tone for the next 5 years!
Got my other half into riding about 4 years ago. We did the twentyfour 12 together a few weeks ago for the first time.
Date history with an ex-girlfriend:
Met on a mountain biking holiday.
Date 1 - got pissed and snogged like teenagers.
Date 2 - she was showing me some of the trails she rides. She fell off and ruptured her liver.
Dates 3 until I lost count - me visiting her in intensive care, then acute dependency unit, then various hospital wards.
The relationship lasted about 15 months and we continued to ride together regularly after her recovery...
Date 1 - got pissed and snogged like teenagers.Date 2 - she was showing me some of the trails she rides. She fell off and ruptured her liver.
Dates 3 until I lost count - me visiting her in intensive care, then acute dependency unit, then various hospital wards.
I imagine the normal "rule" of a shag on the third date was out of the question then ?
And to answer the question, no (edit: unless you call riding round Hyde Park on a Boris Bike "riding")
No. Tried once with Mrs Lunge, she fell off...Head first into a hawthorn bush...we have not repeated the mission. I think I could persuade her to do some quite country lanes type stuff but I've not really tried since then. If truth be told, I quite like the quiet time alone.
Married but our regular date night includes an MTB ride and beer.
Yes, think it was date 5 or 6. Went to Glentress, hired her a very tired Genesis & rode the green and blue trails in the pouring rain. Got thoroughly soaked. Were intending to camp but ran home to bed instead.
We're now happily married with the most gorgeous little boy. 😀
Yes, we met at a cycling club. The first time we went cycling together Bradley Wiggins was with us. We still cycle together (not with Bradley though, fortunately).
Do you ride your dates?
1st or 2nd date?
Makes a difference that 😉
[quote=edd said]Date history with an ex-girlfriend:
Met on a mountain biking holiday.
Hmmm, Exodus Atlas Mountains trip by any chance ?
Current GF (who spends a lot of time at the gym anyway) decided a long time ago that if she wanted to spend any time with me at all on Sundays at least, she'd better give cycling a go again. Didn't have a bike, she tried one of mine out briefly and decided to buy her own. 2 months after buying her own, she broke her collarbone! Which wasn't good.
Fortunately since then, she has (finally) healed which took a ridiculous length of time (seems women are made out of much more fragile stuff than men after all!), got back into it in a big way, sold her original MTB and bought a much better one and now also bought a road bike too! Turns out that she's actually pretty useful on a road bike too!
Had a first date once that was a Mountain Bike ride. Some girl I'd met online who insisted she was really into mountain biking insisted (despite my reservations) that I take her mountain biking as a first date... It was a bit of a disaster quite frankly, even though she'd got a half decent bike, a canal towpath ride would have been taxing for her! I was right to have my reservations at least...
Most recent ex GF, on our very first date, when the topic came onto hobbies and interests said "you're going to find this a little weird but I really like riding my bike"... Bingo! It was an old piece of Apollo crap, but so what. She had a genuine passion for riding bikes! So our 4th date I rode to her house and we then rode down the canal for a bit, then took her round the local woods and she loved it. She borrowed one of my MTB's a few times then at a couple of trail centres and bit the bug.
Very first GF got into it a bit too. Only flatter trails, but oddly out of the blue about 5 years ago she got in touch with me, after a new bike and asked me to sort one out for her...
Suppose in a way I've been lucky, bit the thing I do find hard is managing to get the occasional balls out ride in as I couldn't take the current GF (fit as she is and can climb any hill) anywhere particularly technical at all. She's fine on trail centre blue routes, and some easier reds she manages ok now. She's improving quickly though to be fair.
Similar experience to mboy really - had a 1st date from t'internet who insisted we go for a ride. She rocked up with all the kit and a full face helmet. At Swinley. It was a crap date as you don't really have much time to chat and get to know someone when you're riding single track. Plus she was desperately poor at it and kept having a go at anyone without a helmet 😯
Although I did go on another mtb date with a very cute young lady who turned up with a carbon Lapierre. And she could ride it. That one went much better and went on quite a few dates with her in the end but didn't quite work out unfortunately.
Nope.allthepies - Member
Hmmm, Exodus Atlas Mountains trip by any chance?
My sister commented: "So you got he into bed on a second date? Good work!"jambalaya - Member
I imagine the normal "rule" of a shag on the third date was out of the question then?
we do and it always wet and dirty
2nd date was bike ride from Edinburgh to Dunbar in February this year (tailwind, see not that daft, me.) Now she has bought a nice Ridley Xbow which gets admired wherever we go. Just back from mini cycle tour - Alnmouth to Edinburgh. Ride everyweek together. She's still not convinced on MTB though... as she says she's more "scum than dirty".
Took my now wife out climbing a few times before we got together.
Gave up climbing and started riding, now ride 3 or 4 times a week together. Just starting to ger her riding enduro trails.
It's proper ace having a missus who rides and likes bicycles.
yes, first time we met up after initially chatting, then second proper date, was more coaching though 🙂 but she's always ridden bikes, v good triathlete
I introduced my GF to climbing on our third date and we now climb pretty much every week.
I've now built her up an MTB and she's better than she's giving herself credit for. To the point after only 5 rides I'd happily take on any red run
She hates riding up hills though and unfortunately our last two rides have been in some pretty grim weather. We got hailstones and gale force winds at langsett on Sunday
Do you ride your dates...
....like seabiscuit 8)
yeah, quite regularly.
when we first met, she would not entertain the idea of riding any bike without an internal combustion engine on it.
now, 4 years on, she has more bikes than i do...
Well we're current riding in Les Gets with our sons, so that'll be a yes I suppose.
My wife is quite handy on a bmx. I've had 3 offers from beautiful single women to 'show them the trails'. I have politely declined as the first for sure was after something else my wife informed me.
bit the thing I do find hard is managing to get the occasional balls out ride
Insists on the lights off too does she?
Yep first time I ever saw or met my fiancé was at Afan to ride the skyline. If we weren't both into biking I wouldn't be able to bike as much as I do.
Yep once even a spin class and that date went very well
I had lost a bit of interest in biking when I met my gf, she had a cheap bike for getting about but she wanted to do more, so the following few years saw a couple of secondhand bikes purchased, then onto a new G Fisher, then things got serious and she trumped me with one of the first Lapierre Zesty's.
Now married, we honeymooned in Whistler (her suggestion) she's done the LEJOG, SDW in a Day and has just started trying Singlespeed after we dragged her favourite Kona out of retirement.
On the otherhand, she's into her horses and I'm finding I'm riding horses as much as bikes!
This is really hard work sometimes
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I met MrPea at mountain mayhem 4 years ago and we've been riding mountain bikes together ever since!
One of the first times my husband (then just pre-BF) came to my parents he was on his old MTB...he hopped up and down a few low tree stumps on the green area near the house and I was like 'ohhh'...then I went abroad with the parents and saw a cycling top...I bought it to try and impress him.
Now we do trail centres together and MTB weekends away together - much more of a progression from just cycling to work as a teenager when we met.
Quite sad considering I was 17 when I thought 'I'll buy a cycling top to impress a man'. 12 years on I've only just told him this which highly amused him.
Does meeting my now fiancé on a ride count? We ride pretty much every weekend since we first met over 2 yrs ago and bikes will be required for our honeymoon.
Yes, 1st date was on bikes touring around Hexhamshire, our get-together was after MTBing round Kielder....
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