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However we did feel no small amount of guilt. Turns out the owner was old blind chap who had with the help of a number of different pilots over the years used the tandem to enjoy cycling. Sadly due to ill health he wasn't able to ride any more. He did seem a little sad to say goodbye, but pleased we could offer it a new lease of life.
Would he be happy to get updated on its exploits? Beyond the obvious practical difficulties of this it might make him regret the sale a little less?
Howard-
Yep, we already promised to give them a call in a few weeks and let them know about any tandem adventures.
And @JWestland that's a really lovely idea. Will def. investigate, if anyone has ideas/ leads please let me know.
plxarc
Thanks @Diamond_Supercool @ough - we found we could blast over short hills once we worked out how to coordinate standing up, but it's when your can't keep up your momentum that the tandem gets pretty tiring. Stop starting in London got pretty tedious.
This ended up being our route: https://www.strava.com/activities/575948850
And a picture of the co-pilot and tandem