For many years, we have experimented with holiday forms, which as many of our not necessarily cover-like needs as possible: Berit is mainly about having as much time to paint – and Carsten wants as many thousands of kilometers on the bike.

The first attempt to get on two touring bicycles and to be together for a few weeks (through Scotland …) missed. “Constantly driving” and “plenty of rest for painting”, in this case still combined with the weather, which is presented to Scotland – not a good idea.

In the nearest approximation we combined for a couple of years a camper with which Berit was then riding through the country, and the wheel on which Carsten advanced ahead of time. Not so bad, but also with the one or the other hook: The campers are tied to fortified streets, so that the most beautiful routes away from those streets are bad in the concept. And sometimes it is just too tempting to take the bad weather out of the cab rather than be on the bike. “As many as a thousand kilometers” do not come together.

So it was clear at some point: We would have to try a tandem. This is a tandem, on which Berit has his hands free, in order not only to be engaged in cycling while driving. But in peace the area can enjoy. And paint. Hm, if that could work?

Our first attempt was a Hase Pino step team. Berit front in recumbent position, Carsten rear on Uprightteil. First recognition: Berit is enthusiastic, because it is hellish fun and the painting with the tour does not actually work so badly. Second realization: Carsten is not very happy with the seat position on the Pino. In particular, the steering is quite strenuous, probably also because the forward stoker with the center of gravity of his weight is exactly on the steered wheel.

Our conclusion: A liederadtandem, on the Stoker and Captain lie, is worth a try. But while it was still relatively easy to get the pilot for a test ride, the air was very thin. Too many models that convinced us technically were not in the raffle, and our – naked printed facts – favorite, the twin of the Czech company Azub, was nowhere to be found in Germany. That is, we could have done so if we had been willing to order it blindly. But if you plan to invest in the region of a cheap new car, it would not be so bad to do it after an extensive test. A round in the hall within a special exhibition does not really meet the criterion “extensively”

In the end, we set out for the Czech Republic to test directly at the manufacturer in the wintery White Carpathians. And even if we were on some ice-sloping dirt roads one or the other blue spot, and the tested model in many details was not “our bike” was clear: Heureka! The twin will be our travel vehicle of the future. 

The rest of the idea of lie42.de then happened quite by itself: Is the Azub Twin actually nowhere to test drive, because nobody buys – or buy it no one, because it is nowhere to be tested? In the next few years, we will offer a test drive with the Lieutenadtandem, advise on the basis of our experience in the equipment and, as a kind of “Azub Ambassador”, we also arrange the order to the manufacturer.