Category Archives: Tandem Bicycle

Bob and Claire Rogers’ tandem Zippy is more than just another fancy bicycle to show off at tandem rallies. He has taken them 40,000 miles around the world (1.6 times) fully self supported. Read their journals, view photos from many countries, and imagine where your tandem could take you.

New Bohemians Trans Andes/Amazonas Tandem Bicycle Tour
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we will ride directly up into the Andes in search of more sites, interesting people, and hopefully just the right amount of adventure. We are nervous about -20c temperatures at elevations of around 15,000 feet on dirt roads. Mostly we worry about stumbling upon a coca operation and being taken for Narcos. When we descent, precipitously, into the Amazon Basin, we’ll give away our extra clothes and get steel ourselves for high humidity and temperatures, and mosquitoes. Read the rest of this article…

Preparing a Tandem Bicycle for the Andes and the Amazon 4
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When we travel on our tandem in difficult places, like Tibet, and SE Asia, keeping the bike clean is the last thing I’m thinking about at the end of a hard day: food, a place to get horizontal and sleep are first priority, maybe changing money, buying food for the next day, trying to understand your host, the market vendors; all this before sunset since it’s often cold then, or sometimes not the best time for a gringo to be wandering the streets. So this is often when the derailleuer looks like after 3 or 4 thousand miles. Read the rest of this article…

Preparing a Tandem Bicycle for the Andes and Amazon – 2
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As you can see this hub had some major abuse on our last adventure, in particular pushing for twenty kilometers while lost for two days on an old branch of the Hoh Chi Minh trail in Laos. At least it didn’t run over a bombie and blow us all up; these part would have been really scattered then. After cleaning, I forgot to take a photo, the parts were clean and smooth again, ready for another go at some more mountains, this time the Andes, and probably a bunch of bad dirt roads. That’s why I paid big bucks ($150 or so a long time ago) for a great hub (not a sponsor, we have no sponsors) The hub body has over 18,000 miles on it, and we are on the second set of paws and springs. Not a bad deal. Read the rest of this article…

Phillip Ashley: R324, Nazareth, Ky 40048 Important Person
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In late 1995 we were riding our tandem, Zippy across remote Rio Grande, West Texas. We were 30 miles from any town, enjoying the warmth and sun, racing winter in New Mexico. A seventies era car passed us slowly, dented and rusted, and pulled over on the opposite shoulder a hundred yards ahead. Being alone, on our bicycle for about 11,000 since leaving our home in Washington State six months before, we naturally looked carefully at unusual cars and unusual behavior. As we neared the car, a man in his late 60′s emerged from the car and waved us down. He looked harmless, even cute, so we stopped and smiled as he approached with his antique camera, and took this picture. Read the rest of this article…

Elation, Pain, Surprise: First of Three from one year ago
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We were in the middle to nowhere for three days, climbed more passes than were supposed to be there, were never below about 14,000 feet and bad weather surprised us. The road to Shangri-la is always filled with life and surprise.

Follow the whole story over the next three posts. Read the rest of this article…

Kettle Valley Rail Trail
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We got on the, still unfinished, Kettle Valley Railway (rail trail) bypassing Kelona and on to Penticton. The Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park is the most spectacular section of the trail, with 18 trestles and two tunnels in an 8.5 kilometer section. Read the rest of this article…