Originally Posted by
1930harley
Man you guys got to get out on a tandem. My wife and I hit 62mph coming down one of the passes on the Logan to Jackson race. Here in the rocky mountains one of our favorite rides has a decent where if the wind is not blowing we reach 58mph. If the wind is blowing its scary as hell and we slow it down to 45 or so. LOL We can regularly reach speeds of 38 to 40mph on only a very slight decent. Nothing like pedaling out a 54-11 gear.
That's cool your wife is into cycling, I wish mine was. So you got your tandem to go fast down hill, we know that the extra weight of two riders and a heavier tandem that's entirely possible; but, how your speed going up those same hills? I've past tandem riders climbing hills, but then they would go past me coming down hills. It seems to me the same reason that makes them go down hill fast...weight...slows them down going up hill.