Editing Tandem bicycle (section)

==History==
[[File:Antônio, Luís and Pedro.jpg|thumb|Brazilian princes (from left) [[Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza|Antônio]], [[Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza (1878–1920)|Luís]], and [[Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará|Pedro]] on a triple tandem bike during their exile, 1891]]
Patents related to tandem bicycles date from the mid-1880s.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Iron Age |date=1897 |publisher=David Williams Company |location=New York City |pages=8–10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1H667NtX2WIC&pg=RA18-PA9 |access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref> In approximately 1898, [[Mikael Pedersen]] developed a two-rider tandem version of his [[Pedersen bicycle]] that weighed 24 pounds, and a four-rider, or "quad", that weighed 64 pounds.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.dursley-pedersen.net/originals/various.html?frame=/originals/various_pages/tandem.html
 |title       = Dursley Pedersen Cycle: Various Pedersen Models
 |publisher   = Mads Rasmussen
 |access-date  = 2009-09-22
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719175003/http://www.dursley-pedersen.net/originals/various.html?frame=%2Foriginals%2Fvarious_pages%2Ftandem.html
 |archive-date = 2011-07-19
}}</ref> They were also used in the [[Second Anglo-Boer War]]. Tandem popularity began to decline after [[World War II]] until a revival started in the late 1960s.  In the UK [[The Tandem Club]] was founded in 1971, new tandems came on to the market from the French companies Lejeune and [[Gitane]], and in the USA Bill McCready founded [[Santana Cycles]] in 1976.<ref name="Brown">{{cite web
|url=http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_sa-o.html
| title = Sheldon Brown: Santana
| access-date = 2009-01-06}}</ref> Modern technology has improved component and frame designs, and many tandems are as well-built as modern high-end road and off-road bikes.