Our Bio
We started tandem cycling in the spring of 1986. We purchased our first tandem to do the first Denver Post Ride the Rockies that same year. Our first tandem was a Santana Sovereign. We average over 3,000 miles per year. Our custom TiCycles Tandem is our third road tandem. Since mid '98 we have logged nearly 33,000 miles on our TiCycle Tandem. After nearly 10 years and more than 33,000 miles this spring we purchased a new custom da Vinci Global Venture Tandem. We don't intend to retire the TiCycle.
We have done tours in Colorado, California, Oregon, New Mexico, Wyoming, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont and Canada. In 2001 we rode coast to coast from Newport Beach, CA to Yorktown, VA crossing 10 states with 16 other tandem teams and one single bike. We have tandem toured Germany self-contained. In the winter of 2003-2004 we toured the north and south islands of New Zealand with 11 tandems and 3 single bikes.
We have done several other cycling tours in Europe (Holland, Italy and Portugal) on single bikes. As the years have passed we have become one with the tandem. The majority of our cycling is on our tandem. This site is dedicated to our adventures in tandem cycling. As time passes we want this site to become a journal of our tandem adventures.
In May of 2005 we toured the Northern Shores of Ireland from Sligo to Derry and Belfast and finishing just south of Downpatrick. Checkout our Ireland '05 link.
In July 2005 we met up with 13 tandem teams from our 2001 TransAm group for our 4th Annual Reunion in Bend, OR. Our reunion coincided with the Northwest Tandem Rally.
In August of 2006 we tandem toured with the Bicycle Adventure Club from Prague to Budapest through Vienna and Brataslavia.
Our 2007 tours include our 6th annual reunion of our Tandem TransAm Group at the Midwest Tandem Rally in Appleton, WI followed be 4 days of cycling in Door County, WI. In September we toured the country lanes of Southwest England's Wessex and Cotswolds regions on our with our good friends VIc and Diane and twenty other members of the Bicycle Adventure Club.
Our plans for 2008 include a Mid March Adventure Cycling Tour of Southern, AZ and our 7th Annual Tandem TransAm Reunion in Solvang, CA in July. In 2009 we will be coordinating a Bicycle Adventure Club Tour in Northern Spain.
We live in Colorado Springs. CO and hope to continue our tandem travels for many years to come. We are members of the Tandem Club of America, the Colorado Tandem Club, the Bicycle Adventure Club, the Adventure Cycling Association, the League of American Bicyclists and charter members of the Colorado Springs Cycling Club.