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Northwest Tandem Rally snapshot

A bicycle built for a family heads out of Spokane during the Northwest Tandem Rally over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, 2011. (Ted Magnuson)
A bicycle built for a family heads out of Spokane during the Northwest Tandem Rally over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, 2011. (Ted Magnuson)

BICYCLING -- Spokane treated the 600 riders in the Northwest Tandem Rally to sunny weather over the holiday weekend and two days of tandem cycling fun out of the city and into the Palouse.

But as you can see, tandem doesn't always mean a bicycle built for two.

The engineering and craftmanship in modern multi-rider bikes is mind-boggling.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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