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I need some advice from my married biking friends here!
I’ve been with my girl for four years, and the next step for us is the big question… which rocks. 😆
But I’m curious to know if you guys have trouble riding while wearing the wedding ring; or do you take it off before a cruise? I’m rather curious as most of what I do for fun is really physical and I’m worried about damaging it or losing it.
Do y’all take it off when you ride or leave it on? Thanks!
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Yeah, I used to ride with my ring but found that it pinched alot, especially with fingerless gloves. There’s definitely the risk of loss or damage as well, now I generally leave it in the car when I hit the trail.
If you haven’t already picked out a ring you should check out Titanium rings. They are super light and look pretty sharp, plus they should be practically indestructible!
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I’ve never had any problems with my wedding band, with either fingerless gloves or otherwise.
And yes, definitely check out titanium rings! My wife & I custom designed ours online with a titanium ring store out of Australia. There were so many options it was unreal! Ours are plain titanium with a 16car. gold edging & inside. They can make ’em engraved, anodized, white/rose/regular gold 9-16. The also can have stones inset in them. Both of our rings came to around $500 US.
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Thanks for the info, guys! Popped the question last weekend!
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Congrats dude, I assume she said yes? 😃
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So when is the funeral? Sorry, I’ve been married for seventeen years now…I can’t pass up an opportunity to break a few stones…
Anyway, I stopped wearing a wedding ring anytime I was doing something physical where my hands were involved. That was a couple of years after I got married…
I was an EMT and responded to a call where a guy was hanging from the top of a chain link fence by his wedding ring!!! 😮
The ring got caught on one of the spikes on top of the fencd when the guy tried jumping over it…It peeled the skin off like a glove, but had got hung up when the last bit of skin didn’t want to separate from the tip of the finger and the guy didn’t want his drunk friends to help him anymore!!!
Anyway, thats not the real reason…about a year after that call, I was riding my motorcycle in the desert and got to close to a pucker bush. I was just cruising to the pits and wasn’t wearing any gloves. Somehow a branch got caught under my ring and yanked my arm off the grips and I got a really bad owie on my ring finger…It made me think of that guy and I couldn’t wear the ring while I was doing anything with my hands…namely riding anything or working or…
Now it’s welded to my wifes ring(s) and I don’t wear one at all…After sixteen years +, we’re pretty secure about me not being a "marked man"
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Congrats dude, I assume she said yes? 😃
That she did, my good friend! She also got a used Cannondale 18 speed for Christmas from her cousin. It needs about an hour and $100 worth of parts to get trail ready, but she’s looking forward to joining me this spring on "romantic rides in the woods." Boo yah! 😆
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Congrats on the wedding!! I would recommend not wearing the wedding band while riding. I wear fingerless gloves and the pinching is not a problem but….. the ring slides off. I refuse to leave mine in the truck so I put it in my camel pack where I am supposed to put my keys, it clips right in. That way I have it with me on my way to the hospital. Titanium rings rock but it will scratch don’t let anyone tell you different. Not as bad as gold though.
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Titanium rings rock but it will scratch don’t let anyone tell you different. Not as bad as gold though.
Very true. The funny thing is, the website that we bought our titanium rings from offered two finishes for rings, high-polish and buffed (which was more expensive). We opted for polished.
After nearly 5 years, the rings are no longer polished, but appear exactly as they would if we had bought them buffed instead! Score! 😃 -
But I’m curious to know if you guys have trouble riding while wearing the wedding ring; or do you take it off before a cruise? I’m rather curious as most of what I do for fun is really physical and I’m worried about damaging it or losing it.
Do y’all take it off when you ride or leave it on? Thanks!
I only take mine off when I am riding with a bunch a single women! J/K of course, I am happily married. Ride with my ring on all the time.
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Biking with a wedding ring just okey if only we know how be careful wearing it.
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I keep the ring on and thankfully have not experienced any issues with it while I ride.
Great ring that fits perfect shouldn’t cause any issues I wouldn’t think.
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I no longer wear my ring , witch i catch shit for all of the time, but I have only been married for 6 years and I am on my forth band. I have 2 at the bottom of local lakes, one fell of while swimming and the other wind surfing. I lost my last one in a local river while kayaking.
But wearing rings while biking drives me crazy, it cramps up my finger in a big way. My ring finger is my main grip finger as I always have my index and middle fingers resting on the brake levers. I try to be a one braking finger kind of guy but I prefer 2 . I ride down hill mostly.Good luck with the marrage !
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I’m with Garbanzo…I don’t wear a ring at all anymore, and I don’t even get any s**t about it from my wife. I understand the symbolic meaning of the ring, but in the end it is just symbolic. I trust my wife, she trusts me, we’ve been married 15 years, and we know what’s up.
Other dudes actually give me grief about it, but I think they are just jealous. With that said, I always thought I would surprise her one day by wearing it again. Then again, maybe not.
Congratulations Fitch!
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I’ve found biking with a ring is comfortable or uncomfortable based on the type of glove I’m wearing. When I wore fingerless gloves I’d always leave the ring in the car; now, with full finger gloves I find wearing the ring isn’t an issue.
Luckily I chose wisely and got a titanium ring – now I just need to get the bike to match 😀
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First of all congrads! I have been happily married for 13 years this year and my ring does not come off. Never bothered me mt biking. Only time it bothered me was rock climbing at Crow Hill (across from Leominster State Forest).
Remember marriage is not a 50%-50% relationship but a 100%-100% relationship.
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im not married but after all these horror stories about ring injurys i think shes getting a necklace or something… ill tell you waht really hurts biking is a metal watch didnt even think about it a week ago and after 20 mins my wrist was killing me
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"Mongoose" wrote
On a serious note……It is truly a partnership of heart and soul that thrives on truth, trust, commitment, and un-selfishness between each other instead of a relationship. Sorry, I had to say that Brian. No offense brother!
Offense? I couldn’t say it any better. Relationship, partnership same in my eye.
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I have a titanium wedding ring and it does scratch, but eventually it gets a "patina" that looks decent enough.
I leave mine on for rides, and it has never bothered me. I think that’s due mostly to the size and shape of it though.
Also, don’t forget to get her a pair of these
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I try to remember to take my ring off anytime I ride. It’s made from Tungsten Carbide, so it’s pretty much indestructible/unscratchable, but I worry about losing my finger in some crazy accident!
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Mongoose,
I was glad to hear some one from the trade to finally chime in.As for me, I have a 14k y/g comfort fit band that is 6 mm wide and don’t take it off for anything other than working around machines that it could get caught in. I was in the jewelry trade for 24 years.
As for riding, it stays on. It stopped bothering my finger 29 years ago.
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I wore my ring on rides up until about a year ago when I half-endo’d on a sandy trail and my ring fell off. after a half-hour looking I found it and now take it off before riding.
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I also wear a titanium & never take it off for anything…I feel naked without it. Also wear full-finger gloves, so I don’t have to worry about it falling off 😃
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full finger gloves dont work in the Florida heat…
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Good point 😃 It can get pretty hot & muggy here in Illinois, but nothing like Florida.
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Tungsten rings really are impossible to destroy, it requires the "Jaws of Life" to remove them if they cant be removed by hand… I get married next month so I was wondering the same question, nice topic
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I’ve been to FL and, yeah, I don’t live there…too hot and muggy for me.
I’ll take 80’s, 30% humidity and no mosquitoes, thank you very much! 😃
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Yeah. I’m from Maine originally…I miss the ocean, but everything else is better here.
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"maddslacker" wrote
I’ve been to FL and, yeah, I don’t live there…too hot and muggy for me.
I’ll take 80’s, 30% humidity and no mosquitoes, thank you very much! 😃
What!?!?!? No way – don’t listen to maddslacker…..it’s rainy, cold, bears will kill you, mountains suck, too many @#$! rocks, people are rude, traffic is horrible, nothing to do in the winter, not enough trails for everybody, etc, etc….Colorado Sucks!
Oh yeah, its windy too! (actually it is!)
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LOL…wait, isn’t Ft Collins actually in Wyoming? 😏
Beaker is right about the rocks….
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"maddslacker" wrote
LOL…wait, isn’t Ft Collins actually in Wyoming? 😏
Beaker is right about the rocks….
Ouch! 😆
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Been married for 24 glorious years. My wife almost killed me when I lost my first band in the River in Charleston WV. I take it off when I swim now. Other than that it stays on. In fact unless the cold water shrinks my finger I can’t even get it off. I ride with Fingerd and fingerless gloves (Even in the Houston, Tx Heat) and it doesn;t bother me. But after being married for 24 years nothing much could bother me!
Congrats on the wedding… And if you go for one of the "romantic" rides in the woods make sure you get at least 100 feet off the trail before you get too romantic. Unless your into that of course.
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"eric-29er" wrote
And if you go for one of the "romantic" rides in the woods make sure you get at least 100 feet off the trail before you get too romantic. Unless your into that of course.
LOL…there’s more of that than you’d think in the mountain biking world…
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eric-29er wrote:
And if you go for one of the "romantic" rides in the woods make sure you get at least 100 feet off the trail before you get too romantic. Unless your into that of course.LOL…there’s more of that than you’d think in the mountain biking world…
Been there done that…. Actually me and a friend of mine heard about this great overlook on a trail in Kentucky once. It was off the trail a bit and you couldn’t see it from the trail.
Needless to say we were the "second" ones there. The look on that chics face when we came around the corner and she was bent over a rock in a somewhat pornographic position and her shorts around her ankles and her friend behind her was absolutely priceless.
We politely ducked out and said sorry.
We waited just for comic relief at the trail head for about 30 min. but never seen them. My guess is they waited a while so the coast was clear…
Funny stuff happens when out in the woods.
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😆 😆 haha holy crap, that must have been straight up EMBARRASSING for them! haha wow!!
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Back to the subject.
I work as an electrician(when I am working. Laid Off right now) and I quit wearing my ring shortly after I got it. At the time it was mostly because it was getting scratched up. Also, doing maintenance work where you have to climb around, there are too many places to hang it and deglove your finger. 😮 Not to mention that gold is a very good conductor of electricity. The only better conductor is silver.
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no problems here with my ring
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Wedding ring is fine. Had the wife removed. Just saying. 😄 Later,
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"Marcy18" wrote
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I have yet to have any issues with my wedding band.
maybe it’s because I wear gloves?
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Mine doesn’t bother me. But it’s titanium, so it’s laterally stiff and vertically compliant – and light! 😆
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Yup, been biking with my titanium ring for a little over 10 years now with no problem. Now, I did switch to full finger gloves several years ago and that made things more comfortable. Fingerless gloves tend to bunch up, particularly around the ring.
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My ring is also Ti, and switching from roadie-style, gel padded fingerless gloves to MTB-specific full finger gloves made a huge difference. Before the switch, I used to get the worst blisters right under the ring, now it’s not too bad, just a moderate callous.
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Been wearing mine on the various bikes for almost 42 years now. No problems so far.
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It is great to hear riders mentioning being married for 10 years, 24 years, 42 years…..In a few months my wife and I will be celebrating our 15th and to be honest every year is only getting better. She is a Proverbs 31 wife, What a blessing.
"She is more precious than rubies" Proverbs 31:10
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While we’re on the subject of wedding rings and outdoor adventures…
A couple weeks ago I saw two guys in SCUBA tanks diving below a waterfall just north of Dahlonega. There was a third guy with a sifter and he was sifting through buckets of dirt the SCUBA guys were collecting from the bottom of the 8 foot deep pool. I assumed they were panning for gold (Dahlonega was the site of a major gold rush many years ago) but it turns out the guy sifting the sand lost his wedding ring after jumping off a rock into the water just a couple weeks ago. He had been married 31 years and really wanted that ring back! They left after a couple hours without finding anything but said they’d be back…
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Now THAT’S dedication! Pretty cool
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I take mine off anytime I bike, whether it’s road or trail. Just make sure you put it back on before you get home or you got some explaining to do why your all sweaty with no ring 😮
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"cynergy68" wrote
Just make sure you put it back on before you get home or you got some explaining to do why your all sweaty with no ring 😮
I just never wear mine.
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Always wear mine, keeps me out of trouble and unnecessary explanations 😃 .Got it from weddingbandsdesign(dot)com,platinum wedding bands prices are really low on that website.
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