For you folks on this forum that are in your fifties . . . who think that you are 'old':
We celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary last week and also 40 years of tandem riding.
Started riding single bikes in the early 70s; in 1975 bought our first tandem (a real 10 speed Follis) for our then 20th wedding anniversary.
We are now on tandem
#5 and have pedaled tandems over 240,000 miles as a duo.
Rudy still owns/rides a single bike and pedaled 5,016 miles between the tandem and the single in 2014.
At ages 79 and 82 we still tandem regularly; not as far, not as fast and no more centuries. Been there . . .done that!
A tandem is sometimes referred to as a 'divorce machine' . . . but not so in our case!
Enjoy the ride TWOgether!
Rudy and Kay/zonatandem