My cunning plan…
To solve the wife/too many bikes conundrum was to buy another bike that looked, to the relatively untrained eye, much the same as my existing bike (ie blue) and not to leave them in the same place. If questioned I could then say… “no that’s my usual bike, just left it in the shed…” :^o
It nearly worked… turned out that after 15 years of living with me, Mrs Sock knew a bit more about bikes than I’d given her credit for. 😐
As for the riding? More like a three quarter century spread over two days.