2014-09-13 Tandem Tribe Ride

Coming live from the back of dumps' tandem - we're about 5 mins late

OK, we're here

That was some top tandeming. Thanks team tandem for a quality day out. Now have the urge to pimp my tandem with indexed bar-end shifters and some more functional brakes for some touring next year.

You think you got trouble? I need a tandem and a plus one :/

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I'll get some footage up tomorrow when I'm done riding. Excellent day! I hope everyone got where they needed to be.

Just been piloting my better half round our car park on an exploratory basis, with great success!

Thanks everyone for coming. Was brilliant being out with multiple tandems and good to meet you dumps and upstart.

We were left leaving thoroughly shattered afterwards though. Poor maria was asleep on the couch at 8pm.

Excellent news. Will you be upgrading from upstart for next time?

https://vimeo.com/106097204

(should be a video 45 minutes from now)

Sounds like I'm getting the boot....!

^, ^^^ I think we're more looking at a case of horses for courses. I mean that in a way that won't offend anybody.

I think the camera being low to the ground is giving the illusion of speed there.

Also, we look serious

Went tandeming with Mrs Dumps today. Her first time on the bike!

Got the train out to Ingatestone, then followed a lane-y route through Stock, the Hanningfields and Bicknacre out to Maldon. Fish and chips in the pub on the Hythe, then back to Ingatestone via some blackberry-picking!

Top day out! Even got a a bonus 10-minute Tandem Time Trial in at the end when it looked like we might miss our train.

It struck me that this would be a top route for another forum tandem outing. You could even push on to Burnham and make a Dengie triangle of it.

More tandeming please!

Oddly, that's exactly the route that Rosie had proposed for the first one, but without the train bit and I was reluctant to do the miles that it would add up to. Glad that it worked out - next time, let us know and we'll come with :)

Will do! (Mrs Dumps was worried she wouldn't be able to ping my bibs if we'd had company)

'tandem mandem the lovers rock remix'

soon please.

but it's wet outside!

true, but a gently paced meander will do the world of good before the snow and while we can still not have to wear 5 layers. worth thinking about maybe

worth doing. will have some words.

My tandem judders quite strongly under rear braking. Cant for the life of me figure out why. Wheel is true and brakes mounting bolts are tight :(

How was it getting the tandem on a train?

Also I'm very jealous of such outings as this, a tandem is top of the list when we have more space.

In short, it can be tricky. The only opco I'm aware of that has an official policy on it is East Coast, where you basically need two people travelling, each of them with a prereserved bike slot.

When we went out to Maldon, we picked that line because we thought there would be a big guard van on the train, as there had been when we'd taken bikes out that way previously. But there wasn't, so we were reliant on the goodwill / inattentiveness of station and train staff. I imagine the law of averages means that this strategy could bite you at some point.

Nick - there's a lovely short wheelbase Bob Jackson on the 'bay currently!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1937-Claud-Butler-Racing-Triplet-Claud-Butler-Tandem-/261615774177?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item3ce983e9e1
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