TimeBombAZ
Wizard
Okay, we've done several "Around the town" type rides and today, the wife decided, she wanted to do my usual 300 mile weekend jaunt.
(This is the trip, minus the travel to the house and all the riding I do around Prescott)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...4336,-111.700745&spn=1.681527,3.56781&t=h&z=9
If you can zoom or look at terrain maps, they hill right before Yarnell and the hill right before Prescott are riders dreams. Great stuff.
She did better than expected. She took both hills slow, but gracefully. My buddy who rides with me every weekend took the front, wife in the middle, me in the back. I watched her lines and what she was doing in the corners (IE leaning or not and if she was hitting her brakes). There was no brakes in the corners but you can tell she still doesn't trust the bike. She is pretty spooked about getting it tilted, but in all, she enjoyed herself. She told us after getting to the top she feels she could have probably done it faster.
Though, there was one bad time on the whole trip. My buddy and I were pulling into some gravel/dirt to discuss a route and the wife pulled in with to little speed and washed the front tire, not able keep it up. She jumped away and the bike tipped over. No damage other than the reflector pod on the turn signal. No biggy. It beat her self esteem up more than the bike itself.
Anyhow, it was great getting out there and riding with the wife. Though I would have died for a Scala Teamset so we could have talked.
(This is the trip, minus the travel to the house and all the riding I do around Prescott)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...4336,-111.700745&spn=1.681527,3.56781&t=h&z=9
If you can zoom or look at terrain maps, they hill right before Yarnell and the hill right before Prescott are riders dreams. Great stuff.
She did better than expected. She took both hills slow, but gracefully. My buddy who rides with me every weekend took the front, wife in the middle, me in the back. I watched her lines and what she was doing in the corners (IE leaning or not and if she was hitting her brakes). There was no brakes in the corners but you can tell she still doesn't trust the bike. She is pretty spooked about getting it tilted, but in all, she enjoyed herself. She told us after getting to the top she feels she could have probably done it faster.
Though, there was one bad time on the whole trip. My buddy and I were pulling into some gravel/dirt to discuss a route and the wife pulled in with to little speed and washed the front tire, not able keep it up. She jumped away and the bike tipped over. No damage other than the reflector pod on the turn signal. No biggy. It beat her self esteem up more than the bike itself.
Anyhow, it was great getting out there and riding with the wife. Though I would have died for a Scala Teamset so we could have talked.
