Encouraging blind cyclists

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briansnail
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Encouraging blind cyclists

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Everyone agrees walking running and cycling contribute enormously to mental and physical health.I was just reading how a Society for the blind paired up sighted and blind riders.
My initial thought is such a pity you cannot do this for cyclists.You can hardly tie handlebars together.Especially on the road.Then i thought of tandems.Do you think there is potential for more blind people to take up cycling via tandems?
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Jdsk
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The Tandem Club: "Tandeming with a disability":
https://tandem-club.org.uk/files/inform ... abled.html

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briansnail wrote: 4 Sep 2022, 2:01pm Everyone agrees walking running and cycling contribute enormously to mental and physical health.I was just reading how a Society for the blind paired up sighted and blind riders.
My initial thought is such a pity you cannot do this for cyclists.You can hardly tie handlebars together.Especially on the road.Then i thought of tandems.Do you think there is potential for more blind people to take up cycling via tandems?
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Up forum there have been other threads talking about this issue. Instead of rehashing it might be worth your while to do a search.
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Charlottes Tandems I believe do this ?
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They do. And are on the Tandem Club page with many others.

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A very active tandem group for vision impaired and sighted cyclists in Glasgow.

https://www.cyclinguk.org/group/glasgow-tandem-club
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On the back of a tandem sounds great for the blind but on todays' roads with the volume of traffic I hope nobody is planning to invent AI run automated bikes for the blind :shock:
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briansnail wrote: 4 Sep 2022, 2:01pm Everyone agrees walking running and cycling contribute enormously to mental and physical health.I was just reading how a Society for the blind paired up sighted and blind riders.
My initial thought is such a pity you cannot do this for cyclists.You can hardly tie handlebars together.Especially on the road.Then i thought of tandems.Do you think there is potential for more blind people to take up cycling via tandems?
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I remember piloting a tamden in the late ‘80’s with a blind stocker on the back, quite an experience. As I recall the tamdens were owned by a charity but I forget which one. Whatever, I’d be happy to pilot again but tamden riding takes a bit of getting used to.
Don’t fret, it’s OK to: ride a simple old bike; ride slowly, walk, rest and admire the view; ride off-road; ride in your raincoat; ride by yourself; ride in the dark; and ride one hundred yards or one hundred miles. Your bike and your choices to suit you.
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A number of charity groups do this - I used to help out with ‘open country’ in Harrogate who paired up with Henshaws to do weekly tandem rides off road
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