To clarify some obvious miscommunication here, she now wants to cycle, wants a road bike specifically, and is excited about training and achieving on it.
That is encouraging. Happy for you both.
It seems like a lot of people project the preferences and personalities of their partners onto mine based on the nature and tone of their advice here.
Perhaps. Your situation with your significant other (described in above underlined sentence) is apparently somewhat rare in this sub-forum. I certainly had not meant to pour cold water in my prior post.