{"id":26,"date":"2018-02-19T03:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2021-02-02T06:51:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:51:11","slug":"tandem-cycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"Tandem Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tandem bicycle has two positions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>captain<\/strong> or <strong>pilot<\/strong> is on the front of the bike, and has control over gears, steering and brakes as well as providing half the pedal power; and<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>stoker<\/strong> sits on the rear of the bike and provides the other half of the teams speed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-847 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMGP3077adjusted-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMGP3077adjusted-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMGP3077adjusted-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMGP3077adjusted-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMGP3077adjusted-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMGP3077adjusted-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMGP3077adjusted-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tandems are easy to ride and most cyclists take very little time to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>Riding as a stoker, or volunteering to be captain is <strong>fun and very rewarding<\/strong>, and just takes a few hours out of your day. You will make new friends and improve your fitness!<\/p>\n<p>Exsight has numerous <strong>tandem bikes<\/strong>, ranging from flat bar recreation style Apollos to light and fast Cannondale road bike tandems. We also have an electric assisted tandem.<\/p>\n<p>We ride several times a week in the <a href=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?page_id=10\">Illawarra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?page_id=12\">Armidale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tandem bicycle has two positions: The captain or pilot is on the front of the bike, and has control over gears, steering and brakes as well as providing half the pedal power; and The stoker sits on the rear of the bike and provides the other half of the teams speed. Tandems are easy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/?page_id=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tandem Cycling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exsight.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}