Tandem Cake Topper

[SheSpeeds]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I've spent bookoo time online searching. I'm getting married and would like to have a tandem cake topper with a bride and a groom. We both ride and inspire to get a tandem bike (if we could quit buying ourselves single bikes for a moment). It would be so much more characteristic of us than flowers and cinderella. Does anyone have a clue, or a suggestion on where I can look for such a thing. If they make Harley Davidson toppers, surely they make two love birds on a bicycle.

[Veronica]

Results from a google search got me this.

http://www.lymans.com/bike/index2.htm


Veronica

[SheSpeeds]

Thanks, I did come across that site and have it flagged. It's not exactly what I'm looking for, but it may be all that's available. I also ended up finding a wire version where there are washers as heads. That might work too. I envisioned something more interesting than "stick" figures, but sounds like it would be about $800 for something custom...that's half a bike! I appreciate your responding!

[pedalfaster]

SheSpeeds,

I have a wire-sculpture tandem by a guy in TN-- Joe Certo (he shows up in Google I believe). I've seen lots of 'em but I was attracted to this one because the stoker has a little skirt :D

Mine is about 6" long (too big for a cake) but he had a lot of different sizes in his booth. Mine was $15.

Are you crafty? Remember those Studio 56 Christmas ornaments? I was thinking of ways you could alter those little riding figurines.
hmmmm.

[Irulan]

lego and playmobil make little bikes, maybe you could do something cute with those?


Irulan

[Adventure Girl]

Hey, SheSpeeds

I know you were asking about a cake topper, but since message boards are full of unsolicited advise, here's a little....:) Try using the search feature of this board and search for "wedding" for other bike-related wedding stuff. There's one thread that I particularly liked.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=678&highlight=wedding

I really liked pedalfaster's post about the "bride ride". Sounds like great fun!!

I also liked the idea of registering at your LBS;)

Congratulations!

[Trek420]

"I'm getting married and would like to have a tandem cake topper with a bride and a groom. We both ride and inspire to get a tandem bike (if we could quit buying ourselves single bikes for a moment). "

Congratulations! One idea for the suggested oversize figure "too big for a cake" how about put the tandem figure at the base of the cake and shape the cake as a trail which winds up along the sides of the cake? i saw a marvelous cake once with a seaside theme, white chocolate starfish shells etc which spilled off the cake and continued to cascade out and become part of the table arrangement. Don't limit yourself to the size of the cake ;-)

For this I went four years to design school ;-)

I've gotta question that is vauguely but directily related to this for the group...obviously you folks both ride but how many of you have a significant other who rides? is it a problem that they don't? You guessed it I met someone who doesn't ride, or workout, I'm thinking it could be a problem. Do "mixed marriages" work? :cool: ;)

[Irulan]

I think it depends on what you have that you DO do together.

I'm a little more crazed about biking than he is, ,but he introduced me to it. We both ski, He's crazed about whitewater and I barely can handle it. We have different house hobbies, I sew he does woodworking, but we garden and do projects together. I think he's going to get crazed about SCUBA.

hmm, it looks like we do more together than not together. I guess I'm no much help.

...never mind....

Irulan

[SheSpeeds]

Mixed relationships can work!

Brian and I are both very enthusiastic about all things bike and all things whitewater kayaking. I had just started to ride on the roades when I met him. He introduced me to mountain biking and helped me through the...er rocky start. He has also helped me push my kayaking skills further than I could ever imagine, running waterfalls and class V rivers. When we travel to our adventerous destinations it is very common, especially in kayaking, to see the hubby without the wife. There are often jokes flying around about "I escaped today, but can't paddle tomorrow." Many people seem envious of us that we can play together and our time together is boundless. Brian and I can spend almost every minute of our lives togther, but that's not a trait that every person has. In some relationships, a weekend boating trip let's both people have their independance and personal time.

It has to do with communication. Cycling and almost anything else is a sport that for the people who do it, are passionate about it. The other member of the relationship has to appreciate (not just accept) that is that important to the other person. But I would suggest, that if you are spending more than 15 hours at your sport on top of leaving for work each day, that you have to discover if that kind of "distant" relationship is something that you want. If you think you will wish he was with you to share in the experience that may pose a long-term problem.

Of course...and I meant to finish it there...we do have all our sports in common, so sometimes there's little to talk about. I can't really interest him in the realm of my unique experience (such as scuba diving) because we do the same thing. "Then there was this big 16' foot waterfall, the right side crashing into jagged boulders..." he'd say, "yea, I saw it." So we are a little limited in that aspect.

[SheSpeeds]

My parents said that the only thing they had in common when they got married was that they liked to party together. She was a music major, he was a business major...they've been married nearly 50 years.

[pedalfaster]

Originally posted by Trek420
[BYou guessed it I met someone who doesn't ride, or workout, I'm thinking it could be a problem. Do "mixed marriages" work? [/B]

Ohhh tough one. I'd like to think I could date a non-cyclist, but the not having a sport(or working out) at all part would bother me. Part of it is that physical fitness and activity is important to me and I want to see the same values in my partner.

Annnd...to me there is a difference between just "working out" and having a sport that you are passionate about. I don't think I could date a "gym rat" or someone who walked 3 miles a day for exercise. I think I *could* date someone who hiked regularly and was planning to through-hike the AT. The difference is the passion, the commitement, the drive.

Does that make any sense at all?:confused:

[spinningeme]

SheSpeeds, did you ever find your Tandem Wedding Cake Topper? I've been looking for one myself.


I'm sure this has been asked before, but I've spent bookoo time online searching. I'm getting married and would like to have a tandem cake topper with a bride and a groom. We both ride and inspire to get a tandem bike (if we could quit buying ourselves single bikes for a moment). It would be so much more characteristic of us than flowers and cinderella. Does anyone have a clue, or a suggestion on where I can look for such a thing. If they make Harley Davidson toppers, surely they make two love birds on a bicycle.

[mimitabby]

My husband rode for years before I finally decided to give up and join him.
It occurred to me that we needed the exercise and he wasn't enjoying riding by himself and I was falling apart from not exercising... So ...
I let him train me for the Seattle to Portland ride, 200 miles in 2 days. And we did it.. and i never slowed down.

You never know.

[Tuckervill]

Re the tandem cake topper. I saw some bendies in a bike shop the other day, and one of them was a tandem. You know Bendies...the little figures made of flexible something or other, painted brightly? They have sports players and etc. My son had some when he was younger, but I don't think I could locate them to get a name brand.

Karen

[Hub]

One of the professors in my Division has a son who is a Cat 1 racer. He got married last weekend & they used a tandem bike as a table decoration- she found one on e-bay. It was metal, with working cables, pedals, et cetera.
I think she paid about $35 for it.