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just have her pootle about a quiet few streets smiling at drivers and waving. practice cycling looking over her shoulder etc.
i'd say unless you're in a state of fear, working on bike handling is the best way to be more confident on the road.
noiser
@noiser that is kinda the idea but we work different times so that will be 1 in 3 weekends maybe(she works weekends lots).
@itsbruce for a while it's just going to be her building up fitness, she isn't like mega unhealthy but I remember in the summer she did streatham to wood green via hackney with me(15miles?) and couldn't/wouldn't cycle back to streatham the next day(so I had to get a bus up and cycle the other bike back for her) part of that was the mtb is a pile of shit but when we had city bikes in antwerp/paris/ghent/places the distance was about the same. If she came along to the st pauls rides one weekend riding to st pauls and back without the 15-20miles actual ride would be it.
I think I might dig out some routes from my strava that have gone via shops and aren't as main roads, we walk similar routes sometimes but she sort of just follows and doesn't know where we are. Stuff like this.
http://www.strava.com/activities/206601033
http://www.strava.com/activities/201348004