-
Not that I doubt your abilities, but - and this is not the forum joke - has she considered cycle training?
She could get an objective opinion from someone who is not her partner which may help.
As an aside, I've often felt that riding with a partner in traffic often results in more aggression than when I'm solo.
pastry_bot-
I've had a similar situation where my gf will absolutely not ride in primary position no matter how much I explain it's safer to do so to avoid being doored or dangerously passed by. She can't get past the fact that she's in the middle of the road and feels exposed/inconveniencing other road users. However, when being told by someone other than me to do this she seems to have taken on board as something that other cyclists consider to be the 'done thing', and thankfully shes begrudgingly doing it. Sometimes some external influence can help a lot haha.
dirac
My wife has decided to she wants to do more cycling so she can cycle to her new job which is just up bt Moorgate. So we have been going out just locally to build up her confidence which has been going will, until yesterday, when in the space of ten minutes she decided that cycling to work wasn't going to work for her. 1st we had the non indicating melt who cut across, then we had the close pass by a council van, she screamed as she thought the van was going to hit me, I barely noticed as it seems to be an everyday occurrence. The best was yet to come going pass one of the posh schools in Dulwich we were riding primary as I've been doored twice there, we had and I quote 'forced me to go around on the other side of the road to avoid hitting you' She told us this as she pulled in front of us then slammed on her brakes force us to do the same. She wasn't interested in reasoning so let her say her piece and I wished her a good day. The utter fuckwit.
How can I tell the wife that it's not always like this and get her back on the bike?