Tandem age contest!
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beginning tandem age 63
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As many of the responses to this thread have shown, riding tandems is a life-long adventure. I posted our combined starting age as 45 but we actually started riding together a few years earlier. During the first year of our marriage (we married in our teens) we borrowed a Huffy tandem, swapped in a rear wheel with a freewheel, and went for a weekend tour. That primitive tandem would drop the chain every few miles but we had a lot of fun and couldn't wait until we had enough money to buy a real tandem.
Except for raising our daughter, riding tandems is the best thing we have done together. We had hoped to ride well into our eighties, like some of you have; however, time will tell if that happens. Stay safe.
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Thank you for the kind thoughts. A few months ago I posted a writeup of our accident titled "Bad things happen" (www.bikeforums.net/search.php?searchid=10206108). Last weekend was the 6-month anniversary of our fall. Physically Jean has fully recovered, thanks to great conditioning before the fall, long weekly hikes in the nearby hills after her surgery, and the purchase of a rowing machine - what our daughter calls a "hamster wheel". However, Jean suspects that she may no longer have the skeleton required for this wonderful activity. But then, we haven't sold our tandems yet.
As many of the responses to this thread have shown, riding tandems is a life-long adventure. I posted our combined starting age as 45 but we actually started riding together a few years earlier. During the first year of our marriage (we married in our teens) we borrowed a Huffy tandem, swapped in a rear wheel with a freewheel, and went for a weekend tour. That primitive tandem would drop the chain every few miles but we had a lot of fun and couldn't wait until we had enough money to buy a real tandem.
Except for raising our daughter, riding tandems is the best thing we have done together. We had hoped to ride well into our eighties, like some of you have; however, time will tell if that happens. Stay safe.
As many of the responses to this thread have shown, riding tandems is a life-long adventure. I posted our combined starting age as 45 but we actually started riding together a few years earlier. During the first year of our marriage (we married in our teens) we borrowed a Huffy tandem, swapped in a rear wheel with a freewheel, and went for a weekend tour. That primitive tandem would drop the chain every few miles but we had a lot of fun and couldn't wait until we had enough money to buy a real tandem.
Except for raising our daughter, riding tandems is the best thing we have done together. We had hoped to ride well into our eighties, like some of you have; however, time will tell if that happens. Stay safe.
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We had ridden solo bikes for years, and decided to do the tandem to celebrate turning 60 and start bicycle touring, It has been a great decision.
MikeAndJean:
I missed your other post, so very sorry to hear about your crash. Hope you are back on the Ritchey soon.
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We had ridden solo bikes for years, and decided to do the tandem to celebrate turning 60 and start bicycle touring, It has been a great decision.
MikeAndJean:
I missed your other post, so very sorry to hear about your crash. Hope you are back on the Ritchey soon.
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I passed a team yesterday I know. Captain is probably 10 years my senior, so 77. (We did 50 miles together on singles ~13 years ago.) Guessing his wife is two years younger, that makes ~152 years. Their bike is their second tandem, custom for them in the early 90s from Davidson. So I'm guessing they been a team since say '85. So beginning Tandem Years = ~82.
I'll have to tell them about this next time I see them and update this with the real numbers. ( I see them about every 4th ride or so. They are true regulars. Their total miles have got to be huge. The bike's paint is testimony. Red fading to purple. The red is VERY faded.)
I'll have to tell them about this next time I see them and update this with the real numbers. ( I see them about every 4th ride or so. They are true regulars. Their total miles have got to be huge. The bike's paint is testimony. Red fading to purple. The red is VERY faded.)
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I passed a team yesterday I know. Captain is probably 10 years my senior, so 77. (We did 50 miles together on singles ~13 years ago.) Guessing his wife is two years younger, that makes ~152 years. Their bike is their second tandem, custom for them in the early 90s from Davidson. So I'm guessing they been a team since say '85. So beginning Tandem Years = ~82.
I'll have to tell them about this next time I see them and update this with the real numbers. ( I see them about every 4th ride or so. They are true regulars. Their total miles have got to be huge. The bike's paint is testimony. Red fading to purple. The red is VERY faded.)
I'll have to tell them about this next time I see them and update this with the real numbers. ( I see them about every 4th ride or so. They are true regulars. Their total miles have got to be huge. The bike's paint is testimony. Red fading to purple. The red is VERY faded.)
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So, I'm a kind of a math geek and have been wanting to summarize this info for a while. If you're interested:
So, the average tandem rider is about 61.5. That kind fits what I've seen at rallies, when we used to have them. Looking at pics from old Eastern Tandem Rallies, it would seem that the average age has been increasing over the years. Have to wonder how that trend will play out over time.
So, the average tandem rider is about 61.5. That kind fits what I've seen at rallies, when we used to have them. Looking at pics from old Eastern Tandem Rallies, it would seem that the average age has been increasing over the years. Have to wonder how that trend will play out over time.
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