A couple of funny on this topic. Way back in the early to mid 80's I worked at Trek and was part of the "Pedal Head" contingent. We were all racers and I don't know if we started it or not but we called the Tourist "Freds". Freds used mirrors helmet or on the glasses bow but none of us would be caught with a mirror, (or unfortunately at the time a helmet other then when racing). Hopefully no offense to my tourist friends on this board. :-) When my Stoker asked for a mirror I bristled but then thought why not and that has been my position ever since. When you've ridden forever you sort of get a sixth sense about overtaking cars so I've probably already heard it coming but I love hearing Rachel say "Car Back"! She also does all the hand signals which we are still trying to figure-out do we use the correct gestures from when cars didn't have turn indicators or just outstretched arm in the direction of the turn?

My other funny is Rachel (Stoker) is very competitive so early in our season she told me we were going to ride 1,000 miles, now remember this is someone who hasn't ridden on the road and only had about 50 miles per year in. So I tell her,why don't we shoot for 500. As I mentioned in a earlier post in this thread, we did 1,110 last year.

We are empty nest and I wasn't getting as many miles in on my half bike because I hated to leave her home and this has really fixed that problem and we are having a blast. I left the corporate world seven years ago to work for a very large church and this week we buried a 59 and 57 year old guys. One an avid runner so I want to enjoy what I've got for as long as I can. We celebrate 40 years in 2014 and rather then go to Europe we're planning on buying our sized to us Tandem and enjoy this great discovery! Europe will have to wait for a few years. Now should that bike be coupled?

I'm really glad I found this forum!