Magus, mounted with a lance

[FarmerGiles]

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Spell Combat: At 1st level, a magus learns to cast spells and wield his weapons at the same time. This functions much like two-weapon fighting, but the off-hand weapon is a spell that is being cast. To use this ability, the magus must have one hand free)even if the spell being cast does not have somatic components), while wielding a light or one-handed melee weapon in the other hand.

A lance is a two-handed weapon but is wielded in one hand while mounted so presumably the off hand would be free. Does this mean a magus can use spell combat and his lance as a reach weapon to fight from a mount even though a lance is ordinarily a two-handed weapon?

I suppose you would still need to make a ride check to control your mount with both hands occupied, and this would also require some kind of concentration check to cast while making ride checks?

[blackbloodtroll]

Even in one hand, the Lance is still a two-handed weapon.

It does not transform, or give you any special ability to treat it otherwise.

[Gothlo]

Yes, but remember you only gain the bonus for wielding it one handed.

[blackbloodtroll]

Gothlo wrote:

Yes, but remember you only gain the bonus for wielding it one handed.

What bonus?

[FarmerGiles]

Gothlo wrote:

Yes, but remember you only gain the bonus for wielding it one handed.

If it's doing double damage on a charge plus a touch attack I don't think anyone is going to be too bothered that it only gets 1x str bonus instead of 1.5x.

Is there a way to do that though? I dug up this thread but I don't really see a conclusion.

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2n9ru?Spellstrike-Mounted-Charge-Shocking-Grasp

[Samasboy1]

Take two levels of Titan Mauler.....

[Michael Sayre]

Go double check the FAQs. Last I looked they removed the one that said a lance is always a two-handed weapon and left the one that said the weapon is treated as whatever way you're wielding it for the purposes of feats and abilities, meaning a Magus could very well Spellstrike with a lance while mounted.
On phone so can't linkify, but:

http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fm#v5748eaic9quw

It's important to note that casting a spell is still generally going to be a standard action, so unless you are casting a quickened spell or holding a charge from the previous round you won't be able to combo Spellstrike with a mounted charge.