Editing Tandem bicycle (section)

==Uses==
Tandem bicycles are used in competitions such as the [[Paralympic Games|Paralympics]] with [[Blindness|blind]] and [[Low vision|visually impaired]] cyclists riding as stokers with [[sighted guide|fully sighted captains]].

[[Cycling at the Summer Olympics]] featured a men's tandem event in 1908 and from 1920 to 1972.

[[Image:TANDEM HAND&FOOT BICYCLE.jpg|thumb|Independent tandem bicycle]]
[[Image:Tandem recumbent bicycle.jpg|thumb|A tandem [[recumbent bicycle]]]]
[[File:Orient Combination Tandem, Waltham, MA, 1899.JPG|thumb|An Orient Combination Tandem Bicycle in [[Waltham, MA]], USA, 1899, with two-person steering]]
[[Image:hf tandem.jpg|thumb|Hand and foot tandem trike]]
[[Image:Burley-Packed-SandS.jpg|thumb|An S&S Tandem packed into two travel cases]]
[[File:Tandem VTT doublettrack Tthunder.jpg|thumb|right|A tandem, full-suspension mountain bike]]

Tandems may also be used for [[bicycle touring]] and may provide a solution to the problem of riders with different abilities that wish to tour together. Each rider may exert themselves as they wish and all riders travel at the same speed.

The UK has specialist time trial events that have National competition records over 10, 25, 50 and 100-mile events against the clock. There are also 12 and 24-hour time trials ran by the [[Cycling Time Trials|CTT]] and VTTA riders. There are also place to place records that are run by the [[Road Records Association|RRA]]