Originally Posted by Trsnrtr

Since my wife's plethora of broken bones, she feels the same way. She is a white knuckle rider on the back of the tandem and refuses to ride her own bike. We have a 50+mph downhill 2 miles from our house and today, I had to squeeze the brakes all of the way down to keep it under 35 mph though I noticed Strava claims we still hit 39.5 mph.

Anyway, we stopped twice to stretch her back in 20 miles but I think she still enjoyed it. So sad to see an ex-cat 3 racer and 5,000 mile per year rider afraid to get on a bike after 37 years.