Huddersfield Methodists
  • Home
    • About
  • Notices
    • Preaching Plan
  • Staff & Stewards
    • Peter Catford
    • Tim Francis
    • Andrew Marchington
    • Roz Page
    • Sue Pegg
    • Sue Taylor
    • Richard Thompson
    • Suzanne Bridges
    • Chris Mason
    • Shirley Burton
    • Circuit Stewards
  • Community & Church
    • Huddersfield Mission
    • Messy Church
    • Youth
    • World, Church and Society
  • Churches
    • Almondbury
    • Berry Brow
    • Bradley
    • Dalton, St Paul's
    • Fartown Trinity
    • Gledholt
    • Golcar Providence
    • Holmfirth
    • Honley, Trinity
    • Kirkheaton
    • Lepton
    • Lindley
    • Linthwaite
    • Marsden
    • Meltham
    • Mount
    • Netherton
    • New Life @ The Mission
    • Outlane
    • Parkwood
    • Scholes
    • Shelley
    • Shepley
  • Safeguarding
    • Data Protection
  • Contact Us
  • Worship Resources
    • Fostering
    • Huddersfield Mission Serving People, Changing Lives
    • Readers Services
    • Landscaping Lent

Change Begins with a Bicycle (or Tandem)

30/4/2021

1 Comment

 
Picture
Over fifty years ago when Dave and I became engaged we decided to buy a tandem. I had never owned a bike, and we thought that now we would be able to set off on adventures together, Dave doing the steering and me stoking from the back. Dave was an extremely keen racing cyclist and spent most weekends racing, so this was a way I could share cycling with him. Eventually, Katy joined our family and we acquired a seat for her at the back of the tandem where she squealed with delight and waved and shouted whenever she met people.

Several years later we decided to sell our small house in Netherthong, partly because we needed more room as there was another baby on the way. A young couple came to look round the house, but decided that it wasn’t for them. However, they had seen our tandem in the hallway and asked if that was for sale. We realised it would be difficult with two little ones on the tandem, so reluctantly we sold it to them.

I missed the tandem as our three girls grew older and we were all wanting to go on cycling trips together. Then a friend kindly let me have a heavy, three gear “Sit up and beg” bike with a basket on the front that she was replacing for a more modern version. My bike is still going strong having been carefully looked after by the cyclist in our family. It has travelled with us and our caravan around the U.K. and many European countries, causing much amusement amongst our girls and later with our grandchildren. As you can imagine the basket has always been invaluable.
 
Christine Haigh - Scholes

1 Comment
sains data link
14/5/2025 01:04:48 pm

How did owning a tandem bike shape your family's cycling adventures and experiences over the years?

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Bicycle Stories from across the Circuit

    Join us in sharing and celebrating our personal stories – bicycle memories through childhood and adulthood. 
    ​
    Read the stories submitted, enjoy and be inspired!
    To share your bicycle story, please submit using the button below

    Submit Your Bike Story

    Previous Bike Stories

    Introduction - Bicycle Stories From Across The Circuit

    David Joyce - Tandem Trekkers And Much More

    ​
    Peter Beetlestone - ​Mad Cycling Memories & ​Joe's Cycles

    ​
    Ieuan Jones - ​The Long Bike Ride
    ​
    ​
    Linda Osgood - ​You Can Always Get Back On Your Bike

    Amy - ​Cycling To Success

    ​
    Gillian Holmes - ​​A Good Samaritan

    ​
    Linda Bettany - ​Can You Ride A Tandem?

    ​
    Lizanne Searson - ​Cycling The Circuit

    ​
    Barry Lee - Misadventures

    Christine Haigh - ​Change Begins With A Bicycle (Or Tandem)

    ​
    Rosemary Marchington - ​Cycling In The Blood

    ​
    Harry - E-Bikes!

    ​
    Brian Hibbert - ​Bicycle Encounters

Huddersfield Methodist Circuit

About
News
Staff and Stewards

Huddersfield Mission
​
Messy Church
​Action for Children
​All We Can

​Methodist Homes (MHA)
Methodist Women in Britain

​Fairtrade
Churches
​
Safeguarding

Contact Us
Worship Resources

Picture