Changing gears

In article <[email hidden]>,

Van Bagnol said:

Above all, and especially on climbs, let her ride at her own pace, however slow you may think it.
If you go macho and drop her, she won't enjoy the ride, the gearing won't matter, and you won't
have a riding partner for long. If you keep her pace, she'll appreciate your company, you two will
ride more, and you'll be luckier in the long run.

I think that might be the best advice of all. As the old chestnut goes: "Do it for me, and I'll
forget. Describe it to me, and I might remember. Show me, and I'll understand."

Well, I guess it goes /something/ like that, anyways.

But *being there* to demonstrate & explain things in a supportive, hands-on, immersion-learning
way ... can't be beat. She'll catch-on in no time, like a burr on a wool sock, since shifting
ain't exactly brain surgery, or virtuoso violin-playing. In fact, I think accurately, verbally
describing shifting is probably more difficult than just plain learning-by-doing, since it's such
a "feel" thing.

cheers, Tom

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Ron Hardin said:

Claire Petersky said:

Quoted message said:

> > How can I best explain to her how to change up and down through the gears when she has two
> > cogs to contend with,
>
> Think of the chainrings as broad ranges, and the rear cogs as fine-tuning. This makes the
> most sense with a triple front. Big ring for downhills and very fast riding, middle for most
> flat situations, and little ring for hills.

Being a girl, she can't figure this out.

Dang, I wish there was a way to killfile people using Google...

Warm Regards,

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Ah, a knee-jerk feminist. Inability to read is the hallmark.

The effect discussed is the male hope that the female will be interested in his hobby, bicycling.
Visions of cycling together - you see it out in the wild, a male poking along next to his female
at riding at walking speed on a new bicycle - but in fact the female is not interested and won't
be at all once she gets to get her way. This is why she cannot learn the gears. They're proof for
her that she isn't interested.

Still the male is hopeful. Getting laid is the the incentive, behind displacements and veils that
he doesn't understand.

The girl is following her own interests. Bicycling, she can see, is an escape

Quoted message said:

Similarly mathematics and physics. Count the postings from women in the last thousand in sci.math
and sci.physics. It's probably zero. Nothing keeps women from posting. There are heated
discussions there by complete morons, of things they're intensely interested in. That interest is
what's missing in women, not ability to do technical stuff.

Similarly in the case of bicycle gears. The woman doesn't care.
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

It somehow relates to how women remember what colours you both wore on a special night, while he
remembers what you ate, or more likely, what an idiot the waiter was - or even more likely, he's
still thinking it was not at the restaurant you are talking about. It's a guy thing. Bernie

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Van Bagnol said:

Above all, and especially on climbs, let her ride at her own pace, however slow you may think
it. If you go macho and drop her, she won't enjoy the ride, the gearing won't matter, and you
won't have a riding partner for long. If you keep her pace, she'll appreciate your company, you
two will ride more, and you'll be luckier in the long run.

I think that might be the best advice of all. As the old chestnut goes: "Do it for me, and I'll
forget. Describe it to me, and I might remember. Show me, and I'll understand."

Well, I guess it goes /something/ like that, anyways.

But *being there* to demonstrate & explain things in a supportive, hands-on, immersion-learning
way ... can't be beat. She'll catch-on in no time, like a burr on a wool sock, since shifting
ain't exactly brain surgery, or virtuoso violin-playing. In fact, I think accurately, verbally
describing shifting is probably more difficult than just plain learning-by-doing, since it's such
a "feel" thing.

cheers, Tom

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My Sweety and I ride together sometimes. She is not a daily rider. I've learned to just let her do
her thing. She has owned a bike her whole life, and done more than a ride or two. Currently she is
not in biking condition, and is happiest if I just ride with her. She does the pace that she can do,
and we spend time together. It is slower (and flatter) than I would do on my own, but we literally
stop and smell the flowers together. Oh yes! (do I digress?) I don't tell her when to shift. She can
do whatever she likes. I just try to enjoy the ride. Life is good. Best regards, Bernie

Van Bagnol said:

They act, well, kinda Jobstinate

LOL I know *exactly* what you mean. One for the faq, I hope

Guy
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