Tandem tinkering in the lounge

Tom and Katie back on the sofa, with a tandem for company, after a gruelling few weeks of going nowhere.

We talk about the Family ByCycle’s annual bike rotation and fettling, specialist tandems (and bigger) for families, scouring eBay for second hand bike parts as Coronavirus-induced shortages start to bite, the worst thing about having your bike nicked, and which kitchenware you can clean a crankset with.

Here’s our videos on ‘things we do to tart up a second hand bike’, and ‘doing up a tatty Islabike on a budget’:

And here’s Thomas Ivor (then aged 11) building his own bike:

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