Yup!

Years ago, my wife and I did a rather hilly, two day local ride that was similar in many ways to the Hilly Hundred in Indiana only hillier. At the time, we didn't have much money so the best we could afford to ride was our monster Schwinn Twinn franken-tandem that I had pieced together from scrap bikes and that weighed over 60 pounds. We proudly made it up every hill.

They had a banquet on Saturday night that included awards for goofy things like "most colorful rider," "best legs," "most helpless rider," and the like. One of the awards was for something that had to do with the degree of difficulty overcome. I know that we got some votes, but the guy who did the whole ride on a fixed gear track bike got more. He was faster than us too.

Thanks for the memory.