I am lucky in my life to have very artistic people around me – one friend in general, Ted Schredd, is a very talented photographer and videographer (I might have made up that spelling). He is also a biking dynamo. He’s traversed the United States and Canada many, many a time. I first met Ted when I was 19 or 20, my good friend had taken a bike trip cross country and Ted was one of the interesting people that he met along the way.
I met him that one time in 1990 and then hadn’t seen him until about 8 years ago when he came back into our lives. One very cool thing about Ted is that he loves to see people happy. And he loves to see people on bikes. And pretty much, when you’re on a bike, you’re happy. It just happens that way (at least for me).
This past weekend Ted attached a GoPro to his bike and took a couple of bike rides with various friends. My son and I were honored to be one of those various friends taking our new Tandem out for spin to a great Farmer’s Market. I don’t know what it is, but there is something about a tandem that makes people smile. I typically smile at people when I ride and make lots of eye contact, but on a tandem, people smile at US. People wave, say nice things and generally good vibes begin to emanate from their entire being once they spy two people riding on a tandem. It’s all about the joy, right?
So if you have a couple of minutes, watch Ted’s magic – he has over 3,000 shots that he’s turned into a 1:40 minute video, with BANJO music. You’ll see a tandem, a long-bike (or Extracycle), a mountain bike and a cruiser – pretty spiffy, if I do say so myself!
Thanks TED!
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Denise, what a fun video! I love riding my bike, but it’s had a flat tire that needs to be fixed. We have lots of trails out here that are really nice. It looks like you have good ones! It’s true for me, too. Seeing people riding tandem makes me smile!
🙂
I am a dweeb and bring my bike in to be fixed for flats for the most part. But I use thorn resistant tires, slime and tuffie tire strips on the inside of my tire.
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Oh that’s great! The video is fantastic. Tandems do make people smile don’t they, I know I would always smile if I saw one, I also smiled when I saw someone riding down the street on a unicyle a while ago, it must be something about seeing people do a fairly everyday thing in a different way! I like biking, we have a nature reserve quite near us that is great for biking, it has a really good bike track (one that they use for national competitions), but it also has wooded areas etc so that that you can bike off-track if you want to be more adventurous! You can hire bikes or bring your own. We love it!
That’s really nice to have a place dedicated just for bikes/hikes/skates – the place that we were tandem riding is a linear park that runs East/West across Tucson (it’s a HUGE wash) and then hooks up to a North/South wash on the west end making a nice huge loop – around 40 miles I think…
I would love a nice wooded area but alas, we don’t have those in Tucson!
Have a look at this post I wrote ages ago if you have a sec – not to read the post, but to look at the 2 photos I posted which are of this nature reserve, one of the smooth cycle path, and one of the wooded area – http://vanessa-chapman.com/2012/04/03/rules-are-made-to-be-broken-im-not-so-sure/
That is some serious fun right there. I am all kinds of jealous.
Does our terrain look similar?
Ummm in some ways yes and in others not really. It’s much greener here with VERY steep hills. I’m in the mountains.
Lucky lass!
Very cool! I need to get my kids bikes soon. It’s a rite of passage. 🙂
They will love it!
This is great! I love the view into AZ 🙂
Thanks for the smile this morning
Hi! Thanks ~ it is a nice view of a few different places – from the Riverwalk (a linear park that runs along a wash), to a biking trail to a neighborhood.
What fun! I see people on tandem bikes around here (tourists, mostly) and I think it looks neat. Is it tricky? I see the potential for some nasty spills. In tandem.
Actually, it’s not as hard as I thought it would be – but I’ve been riding a longbike (or extracycle) for about a year, so that might have helped. Getting the rhythm at first is weird and you have to communicate a bit b/c the person behind you might not be able to see much -but after a few rides, you get into the flow.
I always wear biking gloves which helps if there’s a spill.
Oh, my husband will love this!
It is a cool video!
I am impressed with Ted simply because he traversed the US and Canada more than once! A friend of mine rode from Palo Alto, Ca to NYC and took pics along the way. When he returned we watched the most awesome slide show…blew me away…GO TED!
I bet it was fabulous. The people you meet on those trips seem to be so interesting as well.
Ted is an accomplished skier too – he’s a magic happy Canadian fun guy.
Sounds like the kind of friend everyone should have in their circle!
Yup!
Ha! What fun!
I’ve heard of a lot of people having trouble getting their GoPros set up, but everytime I see footage, I want one all over again.
And that was an older GoPro too!
It was fun!!!!
Those GoPro’s are pretty cool. Good to see you’re getting good use out of that tandem bike. Beats yoga in a hot room any day (at least it would for me 😉 ).
Hee hee – did Hot Room Yoga before the bike ride 🙂
You’re a machine!
like a backhoe!
That was pretty cool. I love the fire at the end.
Yes, me too! Ted wields the editing world like a fire on fire…on fire.
Way too kind… Denise.. Love to have you and your family around too! And I think it is so fantastic that you between you and Scott you have opened the biking door for Dorian and that is something you can be very proud of.. !
Awww – thanks! Not way too kind – how about far too true! You are part of our family ~
I would love to do El Tour with him if he wants to try that.