Good for you approaching him. Don’t worry about if it’s a date or not. There are no rules how things need to be done. There are some patterns though that you might be able to recognize.

If you meet up and have fun biking and then he says he’d like to do it again or meet for a bite or whatever and then he calls/texts asking to meet up, then you’ll know he is interested. If at the end of biking he says bye bye have a good week see at next support group sessionthen you’ll know he might not be interested. But then it just meant you had a good time biking, nothing wrong with that. So it could go both ways.

Typically men asked me out but I did ask men out few times. One time I asked a man out and we actually dated over a year but then it was more of friends with benefits (some things were lacking between us in romance department). then we remained good friends and actually still keep in touch, we are both married now. In fact he called recently asking how my mom was (he is a doctor and knows she is battling cancer). And we’ve met almost 20 years ago.

It was rather funny how I asked him, I wrote him a note. Ha ha like a girl. We worked in the same facility but both were leaving the place soon. He was also interested but wasn’t sure as I was older and had a kid and he was a medical student, very busy.

So point of my story is that you never know what could come out of it. Could be biking companion, romance, good friends, or nothing. Pretty much you have nothing to lose. So text a guy when you decide to bike and go from there. Good luck