While Kathy was out trying to kill herself on a mountain bike trail, I was out trying to kill myself on my second 90-mile ride in a week. Unlike hers,…
I took this weekend off from serious riding to go up to the Gold Country with my husband Roger to visit a group of my college friends. Tom, Brian, Nancy…
We've been forced to ride separately for a couple of weeks and I think it's starting to fray our collective nerves. Scott's been riding his solo bike (a new Ibis…
So yes, I did have a 400-mile week. Well, to be more precise, it was 390 miles in seven rides over eight days. The AIDS/LifeCycle is 545 miles over seven…
As Kathy wrote in her Different Strokes post, we do approach cycling—and, well, life—differently. Reaching some middle ground is probably going to be our single largest challenge in riding the tandem…
To state the obvious: everyone is different. But if you ever want to know how different you are from someone else, try riding a tandem with them for awhile. Now,…
Scott's description of our first day (in this blog post) is exactly what was happening... on the outside. For me, the challenge was mostly internal, at least in the days…
From Scott... Riding a tandem successfully takes practice. It's not, as the phrase goes, just like riding a bike. Oh, would that it 'twere so simple. Kathy has a phrase…
Those were the words Scott repeated over and over when he was first trying to con seduce me into riding the tandem with him. "It's all about you, Kathy," he…
I went on a long-ish ride this morning: 50 miles out to Esparto and back. I started out with a Davis Bike Club weekly ride, but wasn't able to convince…
