Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
27 miles, to the Capheaton Cafe and back. Return leg 55 minutes at 14.7mph... after bacon sandwich, tea and cake.
It's brilliant. We'll get an upgrade one day but for now it's great. Gives me a good work-out and MrsA_T and I get to go places that she wouldn't enjoy doing on her own as much. Best of both worlds!I bought a second (third, fourth, fifth...) hand Pashley D-type last year. Mrs Cisamcgu and I have had some fun on it, once I managed to tension the rear wheel, but we spend a lot more time on our normal bikes. I think it might have been a better idea to spend more and get a better one, one with index gears for instance (bloomin' hard to glance at the sprockets on a tandem, so it would be nice if the gear changes when positive rather than vague and occasionally grinding), but we didn't know if we were going to like it, so £135 seemed a better spend than £300+.. in hindsight, now we know we like it, it probably wasn't the best plan ..
I would love to get a good one, since the Pashley worries me really, I have horrible thoughts of it "falling to bits" when we are 20 miles away from home .. But, it is hard to justify the expense ...
oh well...
Anyway, A_T, sorry to kidnap your thread for a few minutes .. I'm glad you are having fun - it is good isn't it