Tandem practice

Ekul Namsob wrote:
Kate and I gave up cycling together quite some time ago as she got fed
up at being left behind on hills (both up and down) and I got fed up
waiting for her to catch up.
This summer, my in-laws will be looking after our daughter for a week
and we've considered having a go on a tandem somewhere. Can anyone
recommend somewhere where we might be able to hire a tandem for a day or
more?

BikeTrax in Edinburgh do, as does the other place off the Royal Mile
that hires bikes whose name I've forgotten (shamefully, as I had a much
loved ex-hire bike from there)

I imagine there's a fair few other places that do.
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Clive George wrote:

"Ekul Namsob" wrote in message
news:1hy2hxc.1pxg0x129ejyuN%notmyaddress.1.ekulnam ...

This summer, my in-laws will be looking after our daughter for a week
and we've considered having a go on a tandem somewhere. Can anyone
recommend somewhere where we might be able to hire a tandem for a day
or
more?

whereabouts are you based ?

We're in Preston.

I'm in Settle. You're welcome to borrow ours for a weekday, if you're tall
enough (how tall?)

I'm 5'11" and three-quarters (I hope to gain that extra quarter of an
inch one day), Kate's 5'2".

Thank you very much for your generous offer. What is your email address
so that we can discuss this further? Mine is luke at shrimper dot org
dot uk

Cheers,
Luke


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Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

Does Sandy still have tandems on The Bicycle Island?

On uk.rec.sailing Sandy recently announced that he had retired from the
bicycle hire business.

http://www.millport.homecall.co.uk/page4.html

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On 13 May, 20:54, Tim Hall wrote:
On 13 May 2007 12:17:52 -0700, wrote:

But what we really wanted to hire was a Hase Pino... anyone know
anywhere that does those?

London Recumbents, Dulwich Park.

I thought they were rather pricey at £10/hour, but having looked at
their website, they refer to better prices for longer hires.

Or YCHAGM on mine. I'm in Crawley, W Sussex.

Tim

Thanks for the offer, if we are ever in your part of the world I might
take you up on it. We're in Gloucestershire and tend to go any
direction but east when we travel. (We both used to live in London and
don't miss it one little bit.)

Rob

naked_draughtsman wrote:

"Ekul Namsob" wrote in message
news:1hy2e2o.zv2jo917p4ff3N%notmyaddress.1.ekulnam ...
Kate and I gave up cycling together quite some time ago as she got fed
up at being left behind on hills (both up and down) and I got fed up
waiting for her to catch up.

This summer, my in-laws will be looking after our daughter for a week
and we've considered having a go on a tandem somewhere. Can anyone
recommend somewhere where we might be able to hire a tandem for a day or
more?

Clumber Park (National Trust) near Worksop has some along with mountain
bikes for hire, but they only have a few so you'd have to go when it's
raining or get there at opening time to get one!

I think there's lots of paved routes around the park but I'm not sure how
well their tandems would cope with the trails.

Well the hills at Clumber park may not be so bad for individual bikes.
It's a nice location too, variety of trails to explore, either round the
lake, or venture off into the woodlands a bit.

Peak Trails in Derbyshire do tandem hire too

http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/index/visiting/cycle/cycle-prices.htm

as do the High Peak Trail @ Middleton top (Derbyshire).

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure...ecreation/cycl
e_hire/

check pdf for pricing. Just head north from that location, south drops
you into two successive 1:8 downhills that aren't much fun. Well not to
come back up anyway. I parked at High Peak Junction last weekend so
started my ride with those two big inclines :/
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In article ,
Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Does Sandy still have tandems on The Bicycle Island?

I have retired from business and almost all the bikes have gone -
however - SWAMBO and the weans told me that we needed to keep some
bikes for the family - 3 boys with partners meant 1 tandem, 1
piggyback, 1 trailor and 15 assorted bikes.

If the OP wishes to try the tandem he is most welcome however it will
be loaned and NOT hired as I no longer have business insurance cover.

Ekul Namsob wrote:
Pete Whelan wrote:

Ekul Namsob wrote:
Kate and I gave up cycling together quite some time ago as she got
fed up at being left behind on hills (both up and down) and I got
fed up waiting for her to catch up.

This summer, my in-laws will be looking after our daughter for a
week and we've considered having a go on a tandem somewhere. Can
anyone recommend somewhere where we might be able to hire a tandem
for a day or more?

whereabouts are you based ?

We're in Preston.

(what size bikes do you both ride ?)

Kate has an 18" bike. Mine is 52cm, if I understand the receipt
correctly.

Cheers,
Luke

I'm near Cleckheaton West Yorks, its a child back really but theres a lot of
seatpost in there.

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"Ekul Namsob" wrote in message
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Thank you very much for your generous offer. What is your email address
so that we can discuss this further? Mine is luke at shrimper dot org
dot uk

Did my email arrive?

cheers,
clive

Clive George wrote:

"Ekul Namsob" wrote in message
news:1hy2mtb.18dsdsusgz5m3N%notmyaddress.1.ekulnam ...

Thank you very much for your generous offer. What is your email address
so that we can discuss this further? Mine is luke at shrimper dot org
dot uk

Did my email arrive?

Indeed it did, along with a couple of others. Thank you all. It's been a
busy week so I shall reply in detail this evening.

Cheers,
Luke


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