Boyfriend refuses to be a bikey

[bindy]

Hello all, does anyone in here think its sh** to have a boyfriend or girlfriend who dosen't have any interest in bikes? I am obsessed and my boyfriend couldn't care less. I have tried to get him into bikes but It is almost like a bikey person needs a bikey partner. I just wish he understood how fun it was. Anyone else here find it annoying??

[McGee]

Tell him no bikey no fookey
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Its pronounced Jixxer!

[colin1]

as a girl, you wdnt find it hard to replace him with a biker bloke
biker females are a bit thinner on the ground
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[Rookie]

Be happy that he allows you! We've had people on here break up because the biker was given an ultimatum - their partner or their bike.

[colin1]

good point
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[ISLAND GIRL]

Bindy, I was not at all interested in bikes or riding myself up until last October. I was quite content to simply ride pillion with the OH and could not care less but then I decided that I would like to give it a go and learn to ride. I was not forced into, maybe given some encouragement and now four months on I ride my own 600! Give him time, dont force it upon him, he may just come round to the idea. If anything now my OH tells me to shut up keep going on about bikes etc, lol !
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[R6 JACK]

My ex was not interested at all she could not understand why I liked them so much she hated them.
She had no interest in even wanting to try and find out which realy sucked so she had to go.



JAck

[NSR Mick]

[Ranger05]

Imo its a great thing having a partner who doesnt like bikes, means you can bugger off at weekends and enjoy the freedom that a bike gives you even more.

My missus hates my bike thank fook
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[kawakid]

Wife doesn't try and stop me, but she has zero interest in bikes.

Bought her the gear to go on the back and in the last year, she has spent 30 minutes on the back. Apparently screaming all that time.

When she came off the bike she looked like she was going to faint, this ride was all 30 / 40 zones and I didn't speed or anything.
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I've a twin and a 4.

[Annabella]

I think I'll just bask in the perfection of a relationship between two bikers.


I have always made an effort to show some interest in my partner's hobbies (I even nod and smile when Jon talks geeky stuff). If your boyfriend doesn't seem to have any motivation to even try to enjoy biking then he's not really making the best effort in the relationship - ditch him!
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[Suzuki]

[Annabella]

[Suzuki]

Great. Now I'm going to take pictures of 11 year olds, at a bowling alley.

Can this get any more dodgy?

"Can you hold my ball while I take a picture?"
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[illusion]

And I hope you are going to post them up here??

joke!!!
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My bike

[Chr!S]

[Adam_P]

[Suzuki]

[yambabe]

I think a lot depends on which other bits of your lives coincide. It doesn't necessarily hurt a relationship to have different interests and hobbies but as Jon and Bella have said, at least showing a passing interest shows some sort of commitment to the relationship.

My partner loves to tinker with our bikes as well as ride them, and also fixes bikes and scooters for a living. I'm about as mechanically minded as a housebrick, I'm an accountant. So in the evenings he may tell me about his day in detail, explaining about all the little engine bits that have been giving him a hard time. Often he may as well be talking a foreign language, but I still listen and sympathise over the bad bits (although I often have to ask "is that good or bad?" to find out what the bad bits are!)

If bikes and biking are the only thing you don't share then you probably haven't got a major problem. If he gets jealous of the time you spend riding your bikes and starts to quiz you about where you've been and who you've been with then the warning bells should be ringing.
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Sod falling in love, I wanna fall in chocolate.

[FreshAL]

[danzai66]

just about managed to keep my missus in a bike shop long enough to point out the differences between an R6 an R1 and a fazer.

i have to go to a perfume counter as recompense...!

she even knows who Chuck Liddel is.

well trained she is.

my missus.

smacked your missus..

[Superlight]

I have to say, as long as there's none of that "it's me or the bike" stuff, I don't think it's a problem.

My other half is quite happy to come out for a blast every now and then, and might actually do her bike test one day, but I wouldn't mind if she wasn't in to it.

Put it this way: I wouldn't take up cross stitch just so I could spend more time with her, comparing yarns at a craft show.

(Ok, she doesn't do that anyway, but that's not the point!)
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[ZZR Girl]

I've been with my current partner for about 13 years so wasn't with him when I first started biking in the 1980s. About 5 years ago, I decided I would like to get back into biking again but he really wasn't keen on me doing it so I let it drop. Last year, I was talking to my neighbour, Mark, who has a bike, and afterwards mentioned to my partner that I really would like to get another bike myself. His reply? "If it makes you happy, then go for it!" So I did. Ten minutes later I was on the internet looking at bikes, and a couple of months later, my new bike was in the garage!

He doesn't have any interest himself to get one but appreciates my bike. I caught him looking longingly at it when I got it out the other day! He also doesn't mind when I say I'm going out for a ride.
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[Robby]

[Method]