mustang1

I commute on an Allez and needed a bike for winter so bought a Tricross with fenders/rack.

So wife pops the question and I tell her I need the fenders for when it's raining so I dont get wet.
She replied "Duh, the rain falls from the sky!"

Cassave

She's a blonde, right?

vik 

Just ask her why she needs a new pair of shoes when she has shoes already.

DallasSoxFan

I'd just say, "For the same reason you don't go muddin' in a 'vette."

vik 

Although I'd cut her some slack on the rain vs. road spray thing...I know lots of cyclists on bike forums who don't get the difference between water from the sky and grimy dirty water from the road.

JPprivate

Does she work? If not, just tell her to stuff it.

thompsonpost

I love it. Thanks for the laugh.

Kojak

Because it's there.

Because there aren't any 12 step programs for cyclists.

Because I don't have any red ones yet.

......... others?

lil brown bat

Best answer yet. Several of the others seem needlessly confrontational and dismissive.

mihlbach

Making her sign one of these will prevent further stupid questioning...

mustang1

I just had a puzzled look on my face like "hot damn, you're right! Why didn't *I* think of that"

Andy_K 

You're not married, are you?

corkscrew

Yet another reason why its better to have bikes than a wife!

lil brown bat

Wow, I bet a lot of you are single. Or headed that way. Why all the hostility?

neil

Yeah, it's his wife. Smart comebacks probably not the best way to go. the 'vette comment or asking about shoe purchases (in the right tone of voice) seems like the best approach, depending on her own tendancies.

I'm a bit baffled by this kind of a mixed marriage. In my family, it's mostly it's my wife bugging me to set aside enough money to buy her a new bike.

tjspiel

^ In case anyone was confused about whether or not this is a good forum on which to seek marital advice.

Honestly, most people in this country get by with one bike. We're the oddballs. You could stick fenders on the Allez if you really wanted to or sell it and use the Tricross for everything.

It's a valid question and the answer is that you don't NEED one. You just want one.

tjspiel

It's really interesting how different couples handle money and purchases, - especially discretionary ones.

Booger1

Sounds like a trick question to me,she wants to know something else.Women,like cops,never directly ask what they want to know.

jefferee

Ain't that the truth.

My wife's questions about why I need another bike would definitely come well BEFORE I drop the cash on one.

wunderkind

... and people wonder why divorce rates are so high in North America.

daveF

Even better is to have a wife who rides & appreciates lugged custom steel frames, folding bikes, racing wheels, & Brooks saddles

barturtle

Because bikes are just like shoes: some are for running (race bike), some are for shopping (utility bike), some are for hiking (Mountain Bike), some are for a night out on the town (cruiser), some are for when the weather is bad (winter commuter), some are for traveling (touring bike), some are for the commute to work (folder), some are for playing (polo bike), some are for the night out with the guys (cyclocross bike)

lambo_vt

+1. Not that it's surprising...

adamtki

Should've gotten her involved early... ask her what color you should get and she'll forget to ask why you even need them in the first place.

Praxis

If I could upvote this post I would. I'll quote it instead. Nice work.