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Welcome! Thanks for
visiting our bike's website. As you look around, you will
learn about us, our tandem recumbent, and recumbent bikes in
general. We also share details about our choice of cycling
accessories. In addition, you'll see that we've included
lots of pictures of our various rides (mostly in the Portland,
Oregon area). Enjoy your visit! |
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Before our first test ride on our "Rans
Screamer" neither of us had ever ridden
a tandem bicycle, of any kind.
Jeff had only limited experience on a
recumbent bike, and Michelle had never
ridden a recumbent at all. After
just one test ride, we were hooked.
There was no question that we had found
the tandem we were looking for! In
our first year, we put 2,000 miles on
our Screamer!
Every time we ride, people stop us to
ask questions about our unusual tandem
bicycle. That was the original
reason for creating this web site, to
answer all those questions and share our
experience. Our simple idea of a
place to answer questions about our
tandem recumbent bike has grown into
much more. Through this web site,
we are now sharing all about tandems and
recumbents with people everywhere.
It is
exciting for us to be receiving
emails from all over the United States
and other countries as well.
We are hearing from tandem &
recumbent riders, future riders, as well
as other Rans Screamer owners.
We will be continually striving
to make this web site the best bike
riding resource that we possibly can!
Enjoy your visit, and feel free to drop
us a line!
Jeff & Michelle
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Jeff@TandemRide.com /
Michelle@TandemRide.com |
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Taking our vacation by bike... |
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We have ventured into
the wonderful world of "touring." More
specifically,
"unsupported touring." That's where you load
all your gear on your bike and head out for a
multi-day trip.
We did a ton of research before we began, since
this was all totally new for us! We share
the best of the wisdom we found regarding how to
get started touring on our
Touring Tips
page. We also worked for several months gathering all the equipment that
we would need. We share those choices on our
Touring Equipment page. Our first overnight
camping trip was a 100 mile round trip
to a State Park. A few months later, we took off for
a week long trip to the Oregon Coast... what a
blast! There is something really exciting
about pulling into a campground on your fully
loaded bike and setting up camp! We have
some of our touring pictures
here. |
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Some of our
favorite organized rides... |
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This was our first century (100
mile ride)! The route began in
Beaverton, Oregon and ended in Pacific
City on the Oregon Coast. We were the
only tandem recumbent bike in the event,
and got lots of interesting comments
from other riders.
Pictures on our
Reach the Beach
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This event is
held each June. This 40 mile
ride is on the eastern part of the old
Historic Columbia River Highway, between
The Dalles and Hood River. It has some
of the most beautiful scenery in the
Northwest! We've ridden it a
couple of times.
Pictures on the
Gorge Ride page |
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In August,
there is the "Covered Bridge Bicycle
Tour." Our 80 miles took us through
some beautiful countryside and over 5 of
the old historic covered bridges in the
Willamette Valley of Oregon, east of the
city of Albany.
Pictures on the
Covered Bridge
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Click
HERE to see a video taken of us in
the summer
2009 by
The Oregonian
Newspaper in Portland, Oregon |
(NOTE: The video
was in relationship to LIVESTRONG and our
thoughts about Lance Armstrong at that time in
2009. Sadly, the story about Lance has
changed because of his admission that he used
performance enhancing drugs. It doesn't
however change all the great things done by the
LIVESTRONG organization, except perhaps giving
it a real "black eye.") |
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