A standard/recumbent tandem and yardwork in kilts????

Monday night, I caught a couple of unusual sights:

First, I had a great ride conquering a hill that I thought would kill me!

Nearing the top of the hill, I came around a curve passing a couple going to the opposite direction...on an unusual tandem!

She was in front on a recumbent and he was in the rear on a standard?!?!?!?!?

It looked very homemade in the brief glimpse I got. All I could say was "that looks like fun!":) :) It was neat that she looked like she was reclining into his arms.

Is this is a configuration that you've seen before? I thought it looked pretty cool!:confused: :confused:

The second sight...well, Aye can't say strange...but definitely unusual. As Aye was driving home from work, Aye saw a guy out cutting his grass in a kilt:eek: :cool: Aye did a double take...and then felt guilty for looking twice:p Aye can honestly say it is my first kilt-sighting outside of some festival!

If this is the first time you have seen a kilt outside of a festival then you do not live in Puget Sound (home of Utilikilts)!

East Hill

Was it a traditional kilt or a utilikilt?

yes that recumbent combo is a standard make. We see them from time to time.

and another good place to see kilts is Buckingham palace! :eek:

I've seen that type of tandem once. I thought it was a brilliant design--the person in the rear can look ahead to see scenery not just the back of the one in the front. I wonder how they handle, though?

As for kilts.....I once worked for a company with a open dress code. Many worked in shorts and one guy worked in shorts year round (high internal core temp). We were bought by a large multi-national who decided to impose a dress code and outlawed shorts. What they didn't count on was that the guy owned a full dress kilt. He worked in the kilt for quite a while--after all, it met the dress code :D :D

DH and I want to get one of those tandem/recumbent combo bikes. We found a really nice one...

http://www.kinetics.org.uk/html/pino_race.shtml


And a larger picture...
http://www.kinetics.org.uk/Pino_Titan_Totale.jpg

On this one, the person in back has the steering/gear/brake controls...which would be me! LOL!

That looks kind of awkward!

And we saw a utilikilt in Estes Park. Nothing I said could convince my son that it wasn't a skirt. He is a disgrace to his Scottish blood. LOL

I've never seen one but that is sweet. I love bike porn... :D

OOOO! I get to post my kilt photo again:D
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...hPGversion.jpg
Mind you, I had to do some "retouching" for this to be posted

Mmm...kilts. I <3 kilts. Especially utilikilts...so it's probably good that I live in a place where I get to see them frequently. :D

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Originally Posted by Mr. Silver

Monday night, I caught a couple of unusual sights:

First, I had a great ride conquering a hill that I thought would kill me!

Nearing the top of the hill, I came around a curve passing a couple going to the opposite direction...on an unusual tandem!

She was in front on a recumbent and he was in the rear on a standard?!?!?!?!?

It looked very homemade in the brief glimpse I got. All I could say was "that looks like fun!":) :) It was neat that she looked like she was reclining into his arms.

Is this is a configuration that you've seen before? I thought it looked pretty cool!:confused: :confused:

The second sight...well, Aye can't say strange...but definitely unusual. As Aye was driving home from work, Aye saw a guy out cutting his grass in a kilt:eek: :cool: Aye did a double take...and then felt guilty for looking twice:p Aye can honestly say it is my first kilt-sighting outside of some festival!

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I know some scottish folks and was at a gathering one time and some men who wear kilts aren't always very good at "proper skirt etiquette". One was sitting in a chair talking to someone else and had on display his red and white boxers and they clashed with his kilt too. I had to leave the room for a few minutes:rolleyes: Jenn

As the old joke goes - You know what a Scotsman wears under his kilt?



His socks! :D :D :D :D



And the bike could have been a Bilenky Viewpoint http://www.bilenky.com/viewpnt.html

I've been tempted by the bike. It has a pretty cool idea of putting the stoker up front where they can see the road (as opposed to the captain's back side) and actually navigate. Somewhere on their website they had a travel journal of a man and 10 year old son who biked across America on one.

I'm envious that you saw one.

I saw a Bilenky for sale on Craiglist in Austin. Interesting concept I think.

Now the kilt, all I could think was "I hope they weren't squatting too much". :eek:

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Originally Posted by Kimmyt

Was it a traditional kilt or a utilikilt?

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Traditional plaid...no squatting that I'm aware of...but I can honestly admit I felt guilty for looking twice! :eek:

That reminds me, we never did get to see that "business on top, biker on the bottom" look.