For a lot of people, lessons-learned the hard way usually stick best. “Reverse Gear” was one of my hard-learned lessons: We were running just a tad late for the start of Friday’s ride at last year’s Eastern Tandem Rally. To…
Mark Livingood joins DoubleTalk as Technical Editor
We are very pleased to announce that long time TCA member Mark Livingood has volunteered to join us as Doubletalk’s Technical Editor. Mark comes to us with a wealth of knowledge, stemming from 17 years of tandem cycling as well…
New website launched
Welcome All! We’re excited to share our brand new (and all free) website that went live last night, January 17th, replacing the old site at www.tandemclub.org. We’ve been hammering away at it over the past six weeks, and are pretty pleased…
Carrying ID while riding
Dear DoubleTalk, I know our membership in TCA has lapsed, but there’s something I’d really like to see in DT. I don’t know if you’d heard, but we had a crash at MATES [Crash One] which resulted in some injuries. The…
Looking for a captain and tandem in Philly
Dear DoubleTalk, My name is Ian Fleming. “I know — Great name”. I am suffering from “RP” [retinitis pigmentosa -Ed.] and have suffered all my life. I love riding and I love running ; however, my vision has deteriorated to the…
Teach a person to fish…
The Eastern Tandem Rally organization recently wrapped up its season of road tandem rallies with pretty successful MATES and ETR rallies, the rallies themselves the subject of possible future reports. What I wanted to talk about here is the rash…
Next Steps for the Tandem Club of America and DoubleTalk
Well, it was a very interesting month as we absorbed and analyzed our reader’s survey feedback on potential changes to the Tandem Club of America and our newsletter, DoubleTalk. Three different issues need to be addressed, ultimately, to return the…
The Changing Face of the Tandem Club of America and DoubleTalk
With Jack and Susan Goertz announcing their retirement as Editors of DoubleTalk, the leadership of the Tandem Club of America convened a series of teleconferences to plan a transition. Our first order of business was, of course, to thank Jack…