You really need to talk to Neonracer01, he was in the same boat as you a few years back. He got his wife talked into it. They had even lost a good friend on a bike.
I would also go take the safety course. You will get your licsenes, and you will have some SAFE stuff to work on your wife with.
To be honest, I dont think bikes are any less save than a car. I was looking at the number of fatal crashes of bike vs. cars a few weeks back, the numbers I came up with for cars for 2004 was 69.33 people out of 100,000 cars, average, died. For bikes it was 57.01 persons died out of 100,000 bikes.
Now I know there are way more cars than bikes, but the average is the average. It just like you hear, from the people that want helment laws, that since PA did away with the helment law, there has been X number more of fatal crashes. They never mention that the number of bikes is also WAY up. and that the average is just about the same. Last time I researched it it was something like .4% less fatal crashes after no helment law.
I told her I would like to go out take the free safety course through the state just for fun. That way if she ever does say that it is ok, I can just go right out and buy a bike instead of giving her time to change her mind :bigthumb: