Tandemo
College Park/Mt. Airy Bicycles' Premiere Event!!
2002 TanDemo/Bent Event
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Rides begin at 9:30 a.m.
More details to come!
2000 TanDemo and BentEvent Recap
Our 8th annual event is history. Hundreds of funseekers came to see,
hear, taste, and ride, ride, ride. Sparky and Smiley unicycled, Juggled, and decorated kids of all ages with balloon
art.
Dave Black and the 5-piece 'Busy Signal' Jazz ensemble performed at poolside. Dave's father Larry mistakenly intro'd them as 'Wrong Number', a name they may use.
Dr Stan Manstoff (webmountainbike.com), after sitting in on Drums, changed hats , and swapped the sticks for brushes and decorated dozens of young faces with bike and other fine art.
The outdoor pavilion became a 'taste of the town' with a cornucopia of delights representing a wide variety of international delights.
Otis Spukmaier Cookie company sent their top baker, an avid cyclist , with his oven and secret recipe. The cookieholic cyclists ran him out of dough after consuming a couple hundred large cookies.
Angie
Long of rightinsight.com wandered the crowds with her crack film crew interviewing the curious and the
seasoned Tandem and Recumbent enthusiasts while her husband Craig toted their energetic daughters on a special
bicycle built for three through the rolling countryside around Mt Airy, Maryland.
Weatherwise, a perfect day to try out the nearly one hundred tandem and
recumbent bikes and trikes transported to the rural estate for the express purpose of education and entertainment.
Some of the unusual bikes:
A five-wheel trike-train for two.
An ultralight 19lb professional bike that folds to fit in an airline-overhead duffel bag.
Three different 'triplets' or bicycles built for three
One that collapsed into a backpack or converted to a two-person tandem
Another one of titanium custom built for a doctor and featured in the sharper Image for $15,000
A 'Family' triplet that fits into two suitcases that can be towed behind
A 26lb Carbon fiber tandem just back from winning a medal in the national championships
A
German-made tandem with the front rider (stoker) in a recumbent position and the rear 'captain' sat in an upright
position.
Recumbents, tandems, and specialty bikes were taken on short laps around the 'mini-track', the home's 80 meter circular driveway, then out in the rural countryside if a longer experience was in order.
Local Tandem clubs from Baltimore and Washington hosted rides from 8 to 35 miles in the opening hours of the event, and the demos started while they were gone and continued throughout the day.
We want to offer our sincerest thanks for helping us bring so much joy
and insight to the participants.
We have already received a kind note of thanks and a large electronic album of pictures from Craig Attig.
Thanks very much, we have included a link to the rest of Craig Attig's images from the event here, Craig Attig's Tandemo and BentEvent Photo Page
The 2000 TanDemo and BentEvent Staff
TanDemo and BentEvent 2000 photos (c) 2000 Craig Attig. Used with permission.