northbend 

Married for 39 years, my wife is a casual rider at best.
She currently rides an E-Bike and enjoys short rides occasionally with me but more so with her girl friends.
They have this little 'bike gang' and all the gals have E-bikes that they've named and they like to ride them to the local park to play tennis or pickleball.
Our turnaround at Fairholme C.G. by Matthew Pendergast, on Flickr

Carbonfiberboy 

Ah, photos. Good idea. This is my fave, us on a pass climb, coming back from Leavenworth up 97. We took the Old Blewett Pass road over the top..


and heading out for a group ride on a typical PNW winter day - in graupel. We actually had fun! It didn't stick, too warm.

Mmassey338

My wife and I ride together 6 days a week and she can stay in my draft unless I really push, but she’s good for 20mph if she stays close on fairly flat roads/trails.
I bought her a Time Alpe D’Huez for Christmas and it made a difference

JanMM

Met spouse/stoker in 1978 when we both biked to work at the same hospital in Indiana. I was a nurse and she a laboratory technologist. Married a few months after meeting. Still together and still riding bikes together. Took up tandem riding in 2000. Still doing that but riding single bikes together more last few years - she on e-assist Trek bike and me on recumbent. She told me after our ride today that she had the e-assist off for about half the ride to get a better workout! I did persuade her to become a recumbent tandem stoker in 2010. Most of our tandem riding these days is on tandem club rides or events like Midwest Tandem Rally.

Pic at Midwest Tandem Rally 2023, Fort Wayne Indiana. Route included stop at Sweetwater music gear headquarters, where I bought some guitar strings.


Today on an 18 mile local ride together. Took pictures of cement truck to show young grandson who loves vehicles, trucks and construction equipment especially.

Tomm Willians

We ride together frequently and we also ride a tandem in complete harmony. At one time she had accumulated around 17-18 bikes that were mostly vintage. Colnagos, Pinarellos, DeRosa, she really has an eye for nice bikes.
Much of that collection is gone as she came to the obvious conclusion that she could not ride them all. Now her vintage bikes are limited to a near-new condition 84’(?) Wilier Triestina in the gold chromovelato finish completely original and a reproduction Team Schwinn Wheaties built on a period correct Paramount frame.
As wives and bikes go, I’m living the dream.

Doc_Wui

Boy meets girl. Boy buys bike. Boy gets girl,
50+ years later, they're still riding,

Alpintourer 

49 years riding together.
Went recumbent trike 20 years ago
Went tandem recumbent trike 15 years ago.

Terex

My wife had her second knee replacement last fall and is just now starting to feel chipper. She gave her really nice mtn bike to our niece so if she gets back to riding it will be electric. She's currently my support team for traveling to gravel events - first one coming up in a week. We started riding together in HS, bought our first 10 spds in college, then a tandem when we were first married (lasted one summer, not our thing), then really nice road bikes, years later towpath bikes to ride with our kids, then mtn. bikes mostly because of big tires and dropper post. 50th anniversary coming up the end of the month. In our 50's she worked a lot and I worked and rode a lot. Now, in our 70's, we enjoy traveling and hopefully doing a bit of riding.

PromptCritical 

That is an awesome story! Good for both of you!

PromptCritical 

When I met my current girlfriend, riding on the back of a sport touring bike was a "must have". So, on our first ride, we are an a curvy country road and she's trying to tell me something. After a couple of: "What, I can't hear yous..." I said: are you asking me to go faster? She said "yes" and now frequently asks me to go faster (I'm not a slow rider having spent some time on the racetrack, but I'm really cautious with her on board). Definitely a keeper.

BTW - to keep it bicycle related, we recently upgraded to a new (to us) tandem from my old one and are going on a tour of Bryce, Zion and Grand Canyons next week!

Tandem bought in '95 to ride with kids.

Tandem in 2023 on a Christmas ride with GF

bruce19

My PIL (Partner in Life) had never been on a motorcycle until she met me. Then I started taking her for short rides on my Ducati. It went so well that she and I threw some money together and bought a Triumph Sprint RS and did some trips out of CT to VT and ME and even to a BMW National Rally in Ohio. She no longer rides because we spend so much time cycling. My moto adventures are limited to around town and once or twice a year a 3-day weekend in New England or upstate NY. And, at 76 I sold my last Ducati (there have been 6 over the past 26 yrs) and bought a new Triumph Street Triple. She and I have been cycling together since we met which is about 20 yrs. It's a great partnership.

Carbonfiberboy 

Redmond, WA

MinnMan

Retirement in the Seattle area? Interesting thought. My wife and I met in Seattle, back in the late 1980s. At the time, I probably would have considered no better place to live than some of our favorite Seattle neighborhoods - Green Lake, for example. But Seattle has changed.

Biker395 

My SO and I met skiing, and that and hiking are the physical activities we share. Long ago, she rode bikes with me ... even went for a short tour or two. But the cycling bug didn't bite her the way it bit me.

I would say that she "tolerates" my bike obsession, but it is more than that. I used to feel guilty when I would leave for an entire Saturday to ride with my friends, leaving her at home. But no more. On the rare weekend Saturday I am not riding and staying home, I think I am more in the way than anything else. She needs her alone time in the home too, and that is what she uses Saturdays for. And it is nice to have a weekend day only with friends.

Honestly, it's all OK with me. It is one of those things that long term couples do ... adapt to one another.

Carbonfiberboy 

And so has Redmond, once the "Bicycle Capital of the Northwest." Now it's also the tech capital.
https://patch.com/washington/redmond...ital-northwest
I have about 150 road cycling routes all originating in a particular parking lot in downtown Redmond. Redmond Cycling Club puts on the famous RAMROD, 154 miles at 9000', which I've ridden many times. It's worth a visit. The other big attraction of course is the Cascade Mountains. My wife and I hiked our legs off up there today and rode our tandem in a group ride yesterday of which I'm the organizer, even though I live in Everett. We drive down to Redmond and sometimes ride back up to within a couple miles of our house, then ride back down, have a beer, and drive home. Because Redmond really is a great place to ride out of.

rsbob 

Bring your checkbook if you want to retire here. Mucho dinero required.

50PlusCycling

My wife doesn’t go with me on longer rides, but she does go on shorter rides with me and our daughter. She’s a career woman with a rather serious position in finance, and is quite busy. My work is not so demanding, and my schedule is flexible enough to be able to fit it around my riding, and not vice versa. Our daughter (who is 9) is becoming an excellent cyclist, and we hope to do some longer rides in the summer.