The TailWind Tandem Club (TWTC) was formed on November 3, 2001 with the purpose of bringing together people with a mutual interest in cycling, promoting fellowship, organizing year-round cycling activities, and developing a better understanding of safe and proper cycling in the community.

Our current members voted on our official name on February 3, 2002. The club is growing with more interest in tandem riding within the piedmont region.

Our "mission" as a tandem club is to promote and encourage cycling for fun and health, as well as for transportation. We see more and more families joining our club from pulling a child trailer ~ to graduating stoking with a parent. This is a fun way to keep the family together and still enjoy the outdoors and the communication you have between your Captain and your Stoker.

The world on a tandem People actually smile when they see you. It’s rather romantic ~ whether riding across town or across the state. The acceptance of couples on tandems means everyone, including strangers, becomes uncommonly friendly.

Captain and Stoker The Captain is responsible for the stoker's comfort. Make sure the Stoker has a good time! Do yourself a favor and never dump the bike with the Stoker on it.

Communicate your needs to each other. Remember that safety requires that decisions about starting, stopping, steering, standing, etc., be communicated. Compromise extends to details such as cadence since it must be the same for each. Negotiate if need be…but make your adventures fun and safe.

Why a Tandem? If you are a single road biker and want to see what tandem riding is all about, come out and join our group on a ride and see the fun that you could be enjoying as well. Believe it or not, the answer could be a "tandem".

Why would you want to ride a tandem? Come out and see why we as a club like to ride tandem. You will have wished you had checked us out sooner.