Folding Tandem

I have never been a serious cyclist, but have always had bikes. The elegance of simple efficient transport coupled with 'it’s good for you', not forgetting the environmental benefits, has always appealed. Following a ski-ing mishap, my wife Sabrina's physio suggested that cycling would help her torn ligament, so the idea of getting a Tandem slowly evolved. A tandem could balance-up our mutual efforts - if one leg out of 4 did very little, it would not really matter. As a youngster I was interested in veteran bicycles, and had owned an old heavy pre-war tandem, so I was not a tandem novice.   We managed to buy a second-hand low-cost tandem.   'Low cost’, meaning that it uses standard wheels and parts.   This means that it would probably break or wear out quicker because it is carrying twice the average weight.    However, as occasional users, this has not been a problem. We took this tandem on several trips to France,  with the technique of laying the