A bicycle built for two

Casey and I spend quite a bit of time in southern California so we've pretty much done every activity there is to do down there except for tandem bike riding. So for our 6 month anniversary I surprised him by renting a tandem bike. We spent the afternoon riding around Balboa and along the beach. We had a blast but only once we figured out our balance point.

If you know Casey then you know that he is a crazy driver and unfortunatley for me he treated our bike the same as a car. The picture above captures my true expression about his bike skills. We did try me in the front but for some reason Casey couldn't handle not stearing so he would try to stear from the back. That led to lots of swerving and near crashes so I gave up the front.

Who can pass up a Balboa bar? Not us. Since I was riding in the back I thought I could eat my bar while we were riding - I was wrong! It is a lot harder than it looks. The wind kept blowing off the top layer. When we stopped I had ice cream all over me.

At one point Casey thought it would be nice to let me do all the pedaling. He said I needed a good work out. So he put his feet up in the front and let me do all the work. He got a lot of funny comments along the way such as "Way to let the woman work. All you need is a 6 pack and some chips". You gotta love men:)

Casey with our sweet ride!

This was at the very end and as you can tell I'm more comfortable riding with him or I'm really good at faking it!