Tandem Racing
02-07-21, 06:35 PM
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No. In fact I recently emailed USACycling about the tandem time trial category at the US National championships. They have not held it in a few years and have no plans to add it to the list of events.
Let's start our own tandem championships!
Let's start our own tandem championships!
02-08-21, 09:20 AM
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Racing tandems has been declining for a while. There used to be UCI world champs in tandem track racing until 1994. USAC used to have national champs on the road, in both mass start and TT, until a few years ago. When I started riding tandem in the late 1990s, there were a handful of stage-type races around the country, the largest was put on by Comotion in OR. But this has all declined over the last decade+. At this point, a handful of time trials in our area may have tandem categories, but even that is getting rarer, and a couple of times I have specifically asked the organizer just so we could go out and race. I think the only place you still really get tandem competitions is in para-cycling for blind stokers.
02-08-21, 07:52 PM
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We did the Co-Motion Classic Tandem Stage Race, road and TT twice at Masters Nationals, and Florida State Championships.
All that’s gone now. We have done some gravel races since then that still have tandem divisions.
The fact that gravel is open to tandems I think is somewhat emblematic of the broader shift to gravel racing which is more open and inclusive than USA cycling sponsored road racing has been.
All that’s gone now. We have done some gravel races since then that still have tandem divisions.
The fact that gravel is open to tandems I think is somewhat emblematic of the broader shift to gravel racing which is more open and inclusive than USA cycling sponsored road racing has been.
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02-22-21, 06:46 PM
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We did the Co-Motion Classic Tandem Stage Race, road and TT twice at Masters Nationals, and Florida State Championships.
All that’s gone now. We have done some gravel races since then that still have tandem divisions.
The fact that gravel is open to tandems I think is somewhat emblematic of the broader shift to gravel racing which is more open and inclusive than USA cycling sponsored road racing has been.
All that’s gone now. We have done some gravel races since then that still have tandem divisions.
The fact that gravel is open to tandems I think is somewhat emblematic of the broader shift to gravel racing which is more open and inclusive than USA cycling sponsored road racing has been.
Perhaps if anything, we should be looking for tandem mountain biking opportunities as this is probably the only real hope we could have!
Kids these days!
