I think a couple who can Pod together, probably can tandem together. And vice versa. But we have been riding tandems for nearly 30 years, and have friends all over the country, well, and a couple other countries, from riding.. so when we got the Pod.. many were interested. However, the couple I am talking about that nearly lost their tandem off the back.. (and a very expensive rack too) Are in a Camplite now.. BTW.. they now carry their tandem on a sliding tray in the bed of their truck.

And since I am posting in this thread again.. LOL.. here are a couple pictures of how we currently carry the tandems.. I just took a couple old pickup truck bed mount fork mounts, and bolted them to a square bar that I mount with turnbuckles to the factory tie down points, gets the seats and bars just low enough to clear the cap.. :) the road singles also go in fine, have not mounted a mt bike back there yet, may or may not clear the cap.. longer forks and full suspension..

https://photos.google.com/search/_tra_/photo/AF1QipOsjz6ZgFikYcTrL-QUBbkEVYZ37xYk29MDUS_I

I would agree that simply using a bike rack in the original receiver is a recipe for failure. There is too much weight cantilievered and there is too much side to side and up/down movment. The pod bounces too much for this type of installation.

You can see our wbike rack mods in several places here on the forum

Vann

You have a buddy with an rPod AND a tandem?! How rare is that?! 

fred

Has happened. Had a buddy come walking back out at rest stop, to notice their $4k tandem hanging at an odd angle... about 80 percent of the welds on the bumper had failed at that point.

Dang.. I had a photo of the tandem, now carried inside the big truck, I was going to post..

Video looks good though..

 I have ridden the tandems solo a few times.. Usually while camping.. LOL. We have the ability to carry the tandem, 2 road singles and 2 Mt Bikes, all at the same time, but have only done it a couple times. Our racing tandem (Co-Motion Robusta) is actually very comfortable to ride 1up, and honestly, it's lighter then many singles. Usually, it's to run to the store or camp store, when she is still in bed or working or something. A couple of years ago I did do a organized tour, 24 mile loop, solo, we didn't know about the local ride until we were there camping, and she had already planned something for the Sat morning, so she did her thing, and since it was the only bike we brought, I rode the Bike Friday Tandem, solo. Got lots of comments.

I suppose you could put it on a trainer, have never tried. She keeps her single road bike mounted on a Cyclops Magneto for the winter.. I have an old set of Performance rollers I use with my single. I tend to spin in the morning, before she gets up, and she spins in the evenings before bed. I still wake early, but not as early as when I was in the Army. She actually works from home, on central time, since her company is HQ'd in Chicago, but we live in eastern time. so she commutes to work, straight from bed many days, about 9am.. LOL By then the dog and I are a couple three hours into our day.

As far as lycra.. try "bibs".. After I retired I put on some pounds.. found bibs fit better, and were more comfortable then regular shorts. Don't buy cheap. Thankfully, mostly due to the popularity of mt Bikes, loose fitting jerseys are acceptable now, and euro team kit is only worn by really serious bike geeks. In the last couple years, we have ridden in just plain old T shirts if the weather was cool, and never had anyone give a second look.

Can you put that on a trainer? I got one for my bike. It's great in the winter (or summer) in the garage where I can wear my robe and watch TV while peddling. I don't look good in lycra.

Thanks!

fred

LOL.. the "captain" up front does the shifting and steering.. the "stoker" in the back keeps track of the computer, bell, signals, and the maps. And snacks. Everybody peddles.. with over 25 years riding tandems, and +75,000 miles, we haven't had our first heated discussion on the bike yet.

Now.. we have been very very quiet for a mile or two once or twice..

The 3 tandems we have owned were all connected drive, so you can tell if "someone" isn't pulling their weight.. LOL  But there is a drive system by DaVinci bikes that allows separate cadence and effort.. we rode one at a big rally years ago, couldn't stand it, and worried much about being out of sync in a corner, and dragging a peddle.

Back when we were younger, and still rode and raced a lot.. we knew probably 75 couples who both rode singles, but only 3 couples out of them could ride a tandem together and be happy. Some couldn't even go around the block "together". Others did OK, but maybe had trust issues..

But very few could ride and be happy/comfortable all the time. And trust me, on a +90F day, 90 miles into a 100 mile ride, going up a 2 mile long, 7% grade at 4mph, into a head wind... it's EASY to get... unfriendly with your partner.  LOL

fred  

I did not do this and will do anything necessary to remove this. 

I just wrote David a private message and asked him to look into it.

I also apologize for hijacking this thread

Vann

When I enlarged photo's I also got "strange" adds for ED and Asian Women.  I closed the window before hubby got any ideas!

Wow, that is completely different. I looked again and also  I had my wife use her computer and  the pictures looked fine.   when she clicked on them to enlarge them it went straight to the postimage .org site and showed an enlarged photo exactly the same with no advertisements or anything.  I also looked on my Ipad and they were fine.

I can assure you that I have nothing to do with any ads and apologize for your issue.

Can someone  else please look at these pictures and chime in and let's see what is going on. Perhaps the Administrator needs to check in.

Please, let's figure this out!

Vann

Keith-

I don't know what you are talking about.  I posted the photos through the postimage.org site as I was instructed.  Please let me know what the issue is so that I can rectify it. the photos looked fine on my computer when I came back to the forum just now.

Thank you

Vann