A bicycle built for 2!

If you know Bryan and me, you probably know that Bryan is a VERY avid bicycle enthusiast!  He loves bikes, riding bikes, fixing bikes, looking at bikes, talking about bikes - you get the picture :)  We both ride our bikes to work, but we only go on bike rides together every once in a while.  Mostly because he is super fast and extreme and I'm... well, not!  So we've been dreaming of getting a tandem bike for a while now, so that we could bike together and easily hang out and stay at the same pace.

The thing that Bryan likes the second most in the universe after bikes is browsing Craigslist... so we were bound to find a tandem at some point!  Last week we found the bike we wanted and headed over to the guy's house to check it out.  He was a really nice old man who had toured on the bike a lot in the past with his wife.  We entertained him for about 20 minutes trying to ride the thing, and decided to go for it!  It was only $500 which is pretty awesome for such a nice tandem.  After bribing our friend with a mini van to drive the bike up to our house in Goleta, we were ready to go for a ride!

Our first ride on the tandem was pretty awesome... it was a gorgeous day and we even survived the extreme downhill from our house to the main road, with only a couple minutes of screaming from yours truly, lol!  The actual ride was surprisingly easy, and we had some really good speed going.  We passed a bunch of other riders on the road that I'm sure were super jealous :)  We'll definitely be doing some longer trips on this thing... can't wait!