Pregnancy and motorcycling

[Jonno.]

And if she wanted to ride while pregnant, how would you have stopped her? Threaten divorce?? Comparing riding while pregnant with smoking crack is just fucked up. She should divorce you for being shuch a numpty.

Another fucked up comparison! To avoid being hit by a bus...dont step out in front of said bus!!! You're the one kidding yourself.

Perhaps you should be getting an animal instead, since you seem to think pregnancy is all the excuse you need to tell your wife what she can and cant do while pregnant. You dont deserve a wife or children. Fuckin control freak!

So you'd let your wife smoke methamphetamine while pregnant so you don't come across as controlling? I've always been the way I am and I don't change with her prengancy.

To be honest my kids come first born or unborn and I get the same line from smokers all the time "go on have a smoke my mum smoked and I'm alright". But then again I have a friend who wouldn't say that because they were born underweight have breathing problems.

If you think being hit by a bus is avoidable then I don't know why I responded.
If you get hit by a train in your house, fair enough but if you fall off your bike and say "oh it's not my fault could have been struck by lightning"...

[nodrog:Me]

....... i stopped riding after about 13 weeks. The second pregnancy was affecting my balance and reaction times: I arsed off coming down some stairs......

what the fuck were you doing riding down the stairs?

[Ratti]

I had 3 offs in 2 weeks when I was carrying my first son. I stopped riding for a long time.

The offs were allmy own work and I figured we were both safer if I stopped. I never thought it would be 17 years before I got back on a bike tho...

[Goblin]

So you'd let your wife smoke methamphetamine while pregnant so you don't come across as controlling?
If you think being hit by a bus is avoidable then I don't know why I responded.

Hell no! But I'd be sure not to try and tell her she cant ride her bike FFS!

[ckai]

Very interesting stuff.

I find i HUGELY hypocritical if Daddy, TELLS Mummy to stop something while they're pregnant and does it themselves. My opinion of course My bike would have been dismantled if I told my wife to stop riding because she was pregnant. As moral support, I stopped drinking during her pregnancy but started to flag it away when she started making me drinks so she could smell them! I can't fight encouragement.

I trust my wife to make the right decisions and assess any dodgy shit that could happen to put not only the baby but herself at risk. Hell, I came off my bike when she was 2 months pregnant and busted a few things. She didn't tell me not to ride after that because the kid may not have a father, she merely said be careful. I have my bent wedding ring as a key ring to remind me.

She rode (only very occasionally when she found the time) when it felt uncomfortable which was basically when her stomach touched the tank. She said it was one of the few things that would chill out Lockie (the baby).

[R-Soul]

And if she wanted to ride while pregnant, how would you have stopped her? Threaten divorce??

Withold sex of course...
Or the keys..

Comparing riding while pregnant with smoking crack is just fucked up. She should divorce you for being shuch a numpty.

No its not- both have a good probability of hurting the kid. Especially when control on the bike is lacking because of loose ligaments, bad balance, ungainly riding positons forced by bumps, and baby brain concentration skills.

Another fucked up comparison! To avoid being hit by a bus...dont step out in front of said bus!!! You're the one kidding yourself.

You're not very good with conceptual thinking are you? He is saying that if something happens that is unforeseeable ( a bolt of lightning out of the blue) or unavoidable (you have to drive a car to get around), then so be it - you could not have done much about it and it was destined to be.

But if you take risks in which injury to you and/or kid is reasonably foreseeable, its just dumb.

Perhaps you should be getting an animal instead, since you seem to think pregnancy is all the excuse you need to tell your wife what she can and cant do while pregnant. You dont deserve a wife or children. Fuckin control freak!

I take as much intersts in my childs life as my wife does - it is mine just as much as it is hers. If anything she does puts its life in danger, YOU CAN BE DAMN SURE THAT I WILL SAY SOMETHING. Where pregnancy is concerned, it is NOT completely her decision to take, as I have a massive stake in her actions too. Especially when the decision is in the nature of a stupid lifestyle choice...

[R-Soul]

Very interesting stuff.

I find i HUGELY hypocritical if Daddy, TELLS Mummy to stop something while they're pregnant and does it themselves. My opinion of course My bike would have been dismantled if I told my wife to stop riding because she was pregnant. As moral support, I stopped drinking during her pregnancy but started to flag it away when she started making me drinks so she could smell them! I can't fight encouragement.

I trust my wife to make the right decisions and assess any dodgy shit that could happen to put not only the baby but herself at risk. Hell, I came off my bike when she was 2 months pregnant and busted a few things. She didn't tell me not to ride after that because the kid may not have a father, she merely said be careful. I have my bent wedding ring as a key ring to remind me.

She rode (only very occasionally when she found the time) when it felt uncomfortable which was basically when her stomach touched the tank. She said it was one of the few things that would chill out Lockie (the baby).

I dont really have the choice as I commute to work.

[Yow Ling]

There was a woman down here racing while she was pregnant. Is that really clever, I didnt think so.
Its one thing to ride pregnant , but putting the unborn in harms way starts to affect other people.
What if in the race she got taken out by another racer, as does happen. How would the other rider feel if the fetus was harmed, who would beat fault. I guess it must have worked out OK her kids are still alive.

[dangerous]

There was a woman down here racing while she was pregnant. Is that really clever, I didnt think so.
Its one thing to ride pregnant , but putting the unborn in harms way starts to affect other people.
What if in the race she got taken out by another racer, as does happen. How would the other rider feel if the fetus was harmed, who would beat fault. I guess it must have worked out OK her kids are still alive.

What an insulting post from someone who was considered in high reguard as a good friend.

There has in fact been THREE pregnant ladies racing with you, but I asume you are talking about Rashika.
a little infio, the kid was the size of a peanut, safe and warm enough inside for a knock harsh enough to harm the mum would be near dead... just aswell we race for fun, socalising, were consideration is given and not in the nationals.

Your post says more about your own personal issues , perhaps if you were to have kids you might be more realistic and understanding.

[helenoftroy]

No its not- both have a good probability of hurting the kid. Especially when control on the bike is lacking because of loose ligaments, bad balance, ungainly riding positons forced by bumps, and baby brain concentration skills.

FFS! A normal healthy pregnant woman does not overnight turn into an elephant sized,badly balanced loose ligamented no brainer!

First trimester & a half there are few outward changes and some of us were not obviously pregnant till 18+ weeks

Women choose to continue to play top level netball,running,marathons,etc etc while pregnant with no ill effects whatsoever

[helenoftroy]

There was a woman down here racing while she was pregnant. Is that really clever, I didnt think so.
Its one thing to ride pregnant , but putting the unborn in harms way starts to affect other people.
What if in the race she got taken out by another racer, as does happen. How would the other rider feel if the fetus was harmed, who would beat fault. I guess it must have worked out OK her kids are still alive.

its our choice & nothing to do with you

You ride along side guys who I guarantee have severe coronary artery disease,may be still cognitively impaired from alcohol/drugs,or have had significant previous head injuries.

We race along side a wonderful man who has had quadruple bypass surgery & frequently has angina at the track.Only medical option in the future is a heart transplant

Your point is???

[R-Soul]

its our choice & nothing to do with you

You ride along side guys who I guarantee have severe coronary artery disease,may be still cognitively impaired from alcohol/drugs,or have had significant previous head injuries.

We race along side a wonderful man who has had quadruple bypass surgery & frequently has angina at the track.Only medical option in the future is a heart transplant

Your point is???

The point is he is only putting himself in danger.

[JohnR]

The point is he is only putting himself in danger.

Actually he is putting everyone on the track in danger...

[Yow Ling]

My point was , if Joe racer carved up Jane racer and she crashed and was injured, then miscarried. How would that make Joe racer feel.
As to People with poor health racing , its their choice, no innocent victims. As for druggies riding, should be more drug testing clubs threaten it then dont follow up.

Dawson you are an idiot. When did i say who it was, in your desperate struggle to be famous on KB you had to claim fame. Well done

[dangerous]

Dawson you are an idiot. When did i say who it was, in your desperate struggle to be famous on KB you had to claim fame. Well done

Surley you aint this thick YL? you said "kids" only one out of the three women have more than one... so that fair fucks your theory on "fame"
and thats Mr Dawson to you, are you trying to upset me by using my real name again? grow up mate.

There was a woman down here racing while she was pregnant. Is that really clever, I didnt think so

Dawson you are an idiot.

an Idiot and or someone not so cleaver would be a person that puts himself in hospital for a couple of days from falling off a small bike in his own drive way because he wore no protective gears... and the day before a big meeting to.

My point was , if Joe racer carved up Jane racer and she crashed and was injured, then miscarried. How would that make Joe racer feel.

Best Joe stays at home, because his drive from his country home, to the track he is more likely to have a crash, and that might just be into a pregnent woman, on that note its most likely safer racing what we do, than riding to Akaroa.