I thought I would give you a little update on how much my wife loves the tandem bike.

We joined the group ride for my bike club on Sunday. There were 10 riders and it started out at 45 degrees out. There was a tailwind to begin, but it was going to be picking up as we rode.

We took off with the group and passed everyone on the first downhill. From that point on, we stayed at least a mile or so ahead of them. We were barely pedaling trying to let people keep up. We decided to stop at each rest stop and let people arrive and leave before we would go. It was just too hard to ride at the pace of a single bike.

We made it to the destination and had a wonderful breakfast with friends. It was a great time. Then we headed back.

The riders on the way back were mostly guests to our club, so we didn't want to leave them behind completely. So we pushed into the wind and rode our own pace. We waited a long time at the rest stop for the single riders. When they arrived we departed again. We finally made it back to the starting point.

It was a very windy ride, but much shorter than our previous rides, so my wife said "I think this was too short of a route for us, I like the 50 mile routes".