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    Tandem bike

    Check out this video about tandem bikes, with accordians.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiN3zVLcVeA

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    That is funny stuff!!
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    That's pretty funny!! My DH and I wonder if a tandem bike comes with the divorce papers already drawn up- cuz we KNOW we'd need them if we bought one. I always joke with him that if one of us comes home with a tandem bike- it really means we want a divorce.
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    Tri Girl, I understand! That's why we ride separate. I've always heard that paddling a canoe and riding a tandem are true tests of a relationship

    This is really funny!
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    We bought a tandem for me to ride with DD when we got the bug to go touring.

    DH and I rode it the length of our street and back to try it out (actually not even the whole street - maybe half) and our inability to ride it together was immediately obvious!

    And yet DD and I have had many happy miles on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bike Chick View Post
    Tri Girl, I understand! That's why we ride separate. I've always heard that paddling a canoe and riding a tandem are true tests of a relationship

    This is really funny!
    Ha. DH and I can do okay in a canoe. Although we do do better in our solo kayaks.
    We think about a tandem every so often.....but then we come to our senses.
    A friend of ours who's a racer wanted to his wife to take part in our group rides, so they tried with a tandem one day. She failed to grasp the concept that she had to pedal, too, and couldn't just be a passenger. It nearly killed him hauling that bike up and down hills for 30 miles. We all thought he was going to clock her one...but fortunately, they survived, and are still going strong!

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    I would rather die than ride a tandem with my DH! It's the whole thing of being "under control." I got faster and my DH slows down a bit and we are happy riding separately, together.
    We do fine paddling a canoe, though.

 

 

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