brian's blog

For the past two Street Scramble seasons, we’ve been riding with one child on the pedal trailer and the other in a bike seat. This year, our younger child is ready for riding on the pedal trailer, so a few months ago we started talking about what we wanted to do. We settled on getting a tandem for me and our eight-year-old, but didn’t find much time to get out and look at tandems.

Fast forward to last weekend. We visited a couple bike shops and came up with the idea of renting a tandem so we could try it out and see if it worked for us. I was a little nervous about trying out a tandem on a three hour Street Scramble, but with kids’ baseball and soccer games, there wasn’t a lot of other time to try one out.