Life In Tandem: Tales of Cycling Travels

“…funny, insightful and well written – Life In Tandem has inspired me to go out and buy a tandem. I just need to persuade someone else to join me…” GEORGE MAHOOD best selling author of FREE COUNTRY and EVERY DAY IS A HOLIDAY. 

“…Very funny. Brought back memories of times past. Took me to places I’d never been…” 

“…Jackie writes well and with a wry sense of humour…” 

“…I think even non cyclists would like this as there is much more in it than just cycling…” 

“…Thoroughly recommend this book for its fresh style, dry humour and insight into interesting places and people…” 

“…Her narrative flows as smoothly as a gear change on a well-oiled ten speed derailleur…” 

“…Jackie tells her life story with a clever mix of cycling, countryside and many cakes and transports you from the prawn cocktail years of the 1970s to the present day…” 

LIFE IN TANDEM: TALES OF CYCLING TRAVELS 

Despite never having learned to ride a bike, Jackie Winter has pedalled over 100,000 miles – on the back of a tandem. For almost 40 years, Jackie and her husband Allan have enjoyed cycling in Dorset and Jackie describes many favourite bike rides. 

Life In Tandem recounts travellers’ tales gleaned from a lifetime of cycle touring holidays in the UK. The couple love cycling in the Yorkshire Dales, which is where they headed in 1976, the year of the drought. A few years later, a cycling holiday in the Lake District presented a whole new set of challenges and somewhat different weather. 

In Top Tandem Tips and Trivia, Jackie shares essential insider advice to help couples remain on speaking terms, plus practical help about buying and riding a tandem. Throughout all the good years and a few inevitably difficult ones, the tandem remains a constant thread. “There are definitely three of us in this marriage,” Jackie says. “I love the tandem and I love my husband a little bit more. Or should that be the other way around?”