Homemade Back-To-Back Recumbent Tandem

Homemade back-to-back recumbent tandem bicycle. Yeah, that’s a mouthful. Joel Gillespie dropped us a note to point out the story he wrote about the enterprising couple who built such a bike to bring their 16-month-old to daycare every day.

At first glance, Lisa Hall and Greg Busch seem like an ordinary grad student couple. They’ve been married for four years, and Lisa will finish her Ph.D. in chemical engineering in the summer of 2009, while Greg’s will complete his doctorate in aerospace engineering later next year. They have a 16-month-old son, Glenn, that they load into a car seat to take to daycare when they travel from their northwest Champaign home to campus.

But once you realize that Glenn’s not riding in the backseat of a car, but in a fully-enclosed trailer behind his parents’ homemade back-to-back tandem recumbent bicycle, the situation reveals itself as anything but ordinary. “It just seems like the obvious thing to do, though,” said Greg. “It just seems like, you’ve got a good reason to carry a trailer, and you don’t have to worry about grocery shopping or anything like that.”

Read the whole article at www.smilepolitely.com.