xcentric
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Was going to PM @All Mountain Coaching, but decided that others may be in a similar position so why not post publicly.....
My wife is persuadable that mountain biking might be something we can do together. She's active and outdoorsy, but had a bad horse riding accident as a youngster and shattered both knees, then broke her back and arm paragliding, and recently her shoulder. So she's never really done the messing about on bikes thing, and the few times I've persuaded her, she's been much faster up hill than down, wearing the brakes out..... She's not keen on the bike moving underneath her, and when I have persuaded her to release the brakes, she slid on gravel and fell off.....
Despite all this, an ebike may be on the cards, and we can go together..... We're about an hour from Cannock, and that is almost on the way home from work too (hence @All Mountain Coaching ).
The question is, how best to introduce her? Should we get the ebike and help her not be knackered so she can enjoy it, or get basic skills better on a standard one (she does have an ok hardtail - I've tried this before
). Is it worth us doing steady fire roads and easy green lanes, and then some coaching for faster downhill, bike movement, etc. Or coaching from the off? Essentially, she needs to increase her confidence, and possibly fall off gently a few times. Advice welcome. (Prices for actual coaching welcomed on here or via PM.)
My wife is persuadable that mountain biking might be something we can do together. She's active and outdoorsy, but had a bad horse riding accident as a youngster and shattered both knees, then broke her back and arm paragliding, and recently her shoulder. So she's never really done the messing about on bikes thing, and the few times I've persuaded her, she's been much faster up hill than down, wearing the brakes out..... She's not keen on the bike moving underneath her, and when I have persuaded her to release the brakes, she slid on gravel and fell off.....
Despite all this, an ebike may be on the cards, and we can go together..... We're about an hour from Cannock, and that is almost on the way home from work too (hence @All Mountain Coaching ).
The question is, how best to introduce her? Should we get the ebike and help her not be knackered so she can enjoy it, or get basic skills better on a standard one (she does have an ok hardtail - I've tried this before
). Is it worth us doing steady fire roads and easy green lanes, and then some coaching for faster downhill, bike movement, etc. Or coaching from the off? Essentially, she needs to increase her confidence, and possibly fall off gently a few times. Advice welcome. (Prices for actual coaching welcomed on here or via PM.)
