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The 2010 Tandem Tours

Come tour with Rich and Lindy, riding through tandem friendly country side. Tours are created with tandem riding in mind, combining beautiful views, the best roads and routes, and interesting sights along the way. The tours include hotels; detailed routes, cue sheets, and maps; and baggage transfer. Share ride highlights and laugh with the other tandem riders at our numerous group get-togethers/Happy Hours and group dinners. Catch up with your tandem friends or make new friends in these welcoming tandem tours.

Easy Adirondacks

Friday, June 25th through Friday, July 2nd

The Easy Adirondack Tour is timed to start with the Saranac Lake Tandem Rally in Saranac Lake and end in time for the Eastern Tandem Rally in Saratoga Springs.

The Adirondack Park is one of the world's great wilderness frontiers. Forged by shifting glaciers more than 10,000 years ago, its landscape is one of soaring mountains, sweeping lakes, mighty rivers, and dense pine and hardwood forests abundant with wildlife. At 6.1 million acres, it is America's largest state park outside of Alaska. Spread over nearly a third of New York State, the Park covers more ground than Grand Canyon and Yellowstone national parks combined.

What distinguishes the Adirondacks from other mountainous areas in North America is its abundance of water. There are more than 30,000 miles of brooks and streams, 6,000 miles of rivers, and nearly 3,000 lakes and ponds. The larger lakes include the 121-mile-long Lake Champlain, which runs along the eastern border of the Park, Lake Placid, and Schroon Lake. The origin of the Hudson River can be found on the shoulder of Mount Marcy at the pristine Lake Tear of the Clouds.

The Park features a unique mix of trees and plant life. Coniferous pines and deciduous trees grow alongside one another. Among others, you'll find white birch, sugar maple, beech, and hickory. The summits of many mountains have an arctic environment with mosses and lichens.

Wildlife is abundant in the Park. Those animals you're most likely to see are whitetail deer, red fox, and beaver. More reclusive are the black bear, moose, and coyote. There are hundreds of species of birds, including the loon, osprey, hawk, Great Blue heron, and the American bald eagle. Many lakes and streams have thriving populations of trout, northern pike, bass, and salmon.

The tour ends in time for you to attend the Eastern Tandem Rally in Saratoga Springs, two hours away by car.

The tour package includes:


The tour is limited to ten couples on tandems.

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Niagara Country: Falls, Canals & Lakes

Saturday, August 7th through Sunday, August 15th

Come join us for this beautiful 8-day Tandem Tour in New York’s Niagara Country. This area has Tandem friendly terrain with amazing natural beauty, including the Niagara River, Niagara Falls, Lake Ontario, and meandering rivers through oak stands. Man has also created wonderful sights to see, including Old Fort Niagara, the Erie Canal, extensive orchards, and cobblestone architecture. Enjoy visiting Genesee Country Village, the largest living history museum in New York State, with 19th century historic structures and gardens. Learn about the Underground Railroad, where communities aided fugitive slaves to reach freedom in Canada.

The tour package includes:


The tour is limited to seven couples on tandems.

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**Niagara Country Registration Closed**

Ohio's Freedom Trail & Farm Country

Sunday, August 15th through Sunday, August 22nd


Ohio’s open countryside, gentle rolling terrain, and small communities provide excellent tandem riding. Come ride with us along quiet country roads, with fields that are wide and glorious. While creating these routes, we saw a 10-point buck, a red fox, and an amazing variety of birds! Communities actively support cycling, identifying connector roads into the heart of their towns. Ohio, once on the frontier of the fight against slavery, abounds with historical and cultural sites from station houses on the Underground Railroad, where slaves could escape to freedom, to the nations oldest private, historically black university. “The real heroes of the story are the fugitives, because they're the ones who took the major risks”, said historians of the Underground Railroad. You can also learn about an ancient Indian people that carved the landscape, creating numerous geometric mounds and traded with other native people as far away as the west coast. Tandem routes follow country roads combined with options using excellent, paved bike trails, following deep streambeds and historic railroad ways. Enjoy the modern motels that we stay at, with continental breakfasts and many with swimming pools.

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