I BOUGHT A TANDEM AND JUMPED IT DOWNHILL! Tandem Twins

This is either going to be spectacular or go spectacularly wrong. My first ever tandem and what better person to shred it with me today than my twin brother Jono who's on his way here after having a big night out last night. He thinks he's coming here for a few leisurely laps of the pit bike track. Little does he know I've reserved a seat especially for him. No. Yes. No. Brilliant. That's what we're doing today. Yeah. Why do you do this every time? Mate look how good it is. Where did you get it? Facebook marketplace. For free I hope. Why is the seat that high? First of all it's been a giant. What I thought it was a pit bike. Oh here we go. It's fixed. Oh yeah. We have to do it all together. Why is the stem that long? Yeah that is gonna suck. You just sit on the back. I'll do all the work. I will take you over some jumps today. I think it's the best day ever for you isn't it? Look at the bar. We've got a tandem. It's an insane riding position. Get on. You'll love it. What? You feel it leaning? Yeah. Is it all right for you? No. Don't go down there. Don't go down there. I think it's gonna be brilliant mate. Two twins on a tandem. Tandem twins. One bypass please. Jump on. Am I definitely on the back? I think you said you just wanted a chilled out day. I think you probably are. We need to talk about this. What foot forward are we rolling? Left please. If I'm the one doing all the work. Why don't you power it? Ready? No. Why? It's not. I'm turning. Why are you biting me? I'm not. You're biting me. Do you want to do a track? Yeah. It's crap. It's the opposite of pumping. When I think I'm going up something you're coming down it and because you're heavier than me I'm pumping uphill. I think we just need to start riding down tracks so we don't have to pedal. Something's got to change with this pedaling. I've got an idea. Look. Thank god we've got 30 gears. Your right foot forward. Take that off. Swap the direction. They line up. Yeah it's perfect. Yes. Tandem twins. You've got the easy job you just have to sit there. I don't think you get it. You said sit there and then you're screaming at me lean lean lean. Right I'm going. I'm going left. I'll do one Put your feet on. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Stop pedaling. Stop pedaling. Stop. Try and pump. It's easy. It's so rubbish. It's fine. I promise you. Pump. Yes. That actually worked. We did a track. Not actually that bad. It's a prison sentence on the back. You honestly can't make an opinion to you on how to go back there. That. You can't but you don't have to do anything. That area is the most horrible thing in the mountain bike world. No let's do a bigger track. It's not that bad. Get on the back. You don't have to do anything. Get on the back. You honestly don't have any idea. I hear you're fixed. You can't steer. Stop leaning. I can't get my feet on the pedal. Stop leaning. Pedal. You've got such a big back. I can't see. No you can have the back. You like the back don't you? You like the back. I think I'm better at the front. Should we take the chain off? Oh we could take the chain off. Because you can still drive from the back. No you would be driving. I'll be the pilot. You can go at the back. And you'd be the locomotive. That's a good idea but we should do that in reverse so I'll go at the front. How's the locomotion? It's so hard to see. Jesus stop. What did you do? Why were you trying to see? I don't know. Go from here. That was really scary. You lent to look around me didn't you? Yeah. Don't do that. Why do I just have to ride blind? You're an engine. Engines don't rely on sight. They're just power mate. We need speed. There's jumps. We're going on half wheel drive. No we're not going off there. Pedal. That's probably on you. That's not on me. What could I have done differently? Not make me ride a tandem. I wanted to ride a pit bike. I think we have to go around that. No let's try again. So what hit? Yours did? Yeah. And then this one wheel as well. No it might not. Oh big time. So if you need to pedal faster. We'd have to be on that trajectory to not hit. Which we can do. But then that's clearing it. Look it's a bike. The jump's a bike then. Try again. I think if you pedal faster I'm pretty satisfied with me piloting it. We was really near a crash that time. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. I'm pedaling. All right. Now we're in bro. Oh it's incredible. It's really hard. I've never been dragged towards the earth that quick. That's how it feels every time you crash. Let's try that jump. Yeah plenty of run up. I'd hate to be on the back. Jonathan. It's really hard. I think the long stem makes it really treacherous too. It's so damn twitchy. If he even like leans to try and have a look at what's coming you just get snatched towards the ground. But I'm determined. I think we could do some brilliant things on this. It's just need that partnership you know. Tandem twist. I think get us some speed to that corner there and then we'll just use gravity because we're like so slipstream and fast on this. All right. You ready? Oh no. Ready bro? Yeah. Try and stay upright. It's so bad back here. Now straight. Like just stay upright. Stay upright. Stay upright. We've got this mate. Yes. Are you all right? I'm trying. Oh yeah you don't have brakes do you? Dude we're gonna do a whole track. The chain ring hit it. Yes boy. Did you hear me shouting slow down slow down? As soon as you said that I actually recorded for the first time that you don't have brakes. Yeah. You don't have any brakes. This feels so passenger. So it's a runaway train. Yeah. And you're the engine. I could do that again. Just seem to like all come together. Just trying to be really like one mass. We just did our first step and a full track. Tandem twins. Let's do that again. Yeah yeah. Have you got any any tips for us at all? Yeah scream. I was only allowed on the back. It's the worst. It's horrific. Right same again but from the very top. Full run. Is this rock paper scissors for who's on the front? Right full run from the top dude. We've got this. I'm honestly considering stopping. But you need to pedal. Tell me what to do. Pedal. Pedal. My bars are twisting. That's okay. Pedal. It isn't okay. Pedal. No I can't. I'm not pedaling yet. I really hate it. Yeah but down here there's those jumps. You need a bit of speed. Please. Don't worry. Just do normal. Yes that was all right. Yes mate. Come on then. Come on. You're all right. You're all right. You're all right. Stop stop. Honestly you can feel it coming so long before. Yeah I knew. I knew up there we were done. You're getting a tank slapper. I think it's a bad tandem. There's no such thing as a good one. You can feel the crashes happen so early. Like this berm. Actually I think I can see where the front wheel went. You basically hit the tree. You did really well not to make us crash there. But then the crash starts here and you can just feel it coming the whole way. My feet just want to come off. It's just the worst thing. It's the worst. We need to do this. Who'd have thought that just completing a track was going to be such an insane challenge. Oh dear. Just be one with the frame. Whatever. Do you know what I mean? Like don't do any steering or any leaning really. I don't even know. I don't know why I'm giving you advice. But at the front I am fighting some big forces. A few pedals at the start and then let's just be the tandem. Right there we go mate. Look we're on. We're on. Are you stood up? Stood up. Oh good man. Pedaling. Good man. Pedaling. We're on. Step up. Coming up mate. Huge air machine. Are you okay? Yeah. Slow down. I'm alright. You're on. I'm off the pedals. You're on. Get on quick. Get on. We changed track. It's so hard and I'm not even having to do anything. You've got a tough job I think. I just thought if you can just get your feet on the pedals we'll finish the track. That's all I was thinking about. Like it's a massive feat to achieve that and I thought we almost had it but let's find a different track. Thank you. You're on the tandem. His missus has just shattered her ankle. Oh I thought you'd say it. It was like that. No we don't want to know. We don't want to know. How are your ankles? I just missed a story. God we've got a good crowd. Ready? Yeah. This is going to be our first full tandem lap. I can't even get going. Get on. The four cross. Three, two, one, go. I'm stood up. You've got to pump these mate. I've gone off a drop bro. Good lad. Why do your feet come off? Well I can't see past you so I don't know where we're going so I'm like in a hunched position but then the bike just drops away and my feet come off. Three, two, one, go. Do a full run Jonny. We're going to the bottom. We can't make that claim. I'm pumping. Yes. Can you just jump? Yeah. Big time. Steady here. Jump. This is the way to do it. High speed. It's better. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Yeah. I'm not pedaling yet. Now pedal. Pedal. We've got four rollers. Four rollers. Did you change gear? My eyes are watering. It's emotional. Did you change gear? Oh yeah. Hang on. Pedal. You need to tell me what's coming. Jump. We're going to do this. Come on then. Pedal now. You have to get up a hill. Yes Jonno. All the way then. Okay. Oh this is a complex feature at the end. It's like an on-off. Just do it slow please. My car needs big speed. You okay? Last one. Yes. Yes mate. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Mate. I'm so stoked. That is the track isn't it? What a track. Let's do it again. I think we could double the speed. Three. Two. One. Go. All right. I'm stood up. Yes mate. That's so good. I cleared that. Right. Let's keep left. Go around the top of this berm. Nice. Now inside. Inside. Yes Jonno. You're leaning. That's it. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Mate. You're smashing the power. Good locomotion. What now? Nothing. Just let it roll. Let it roll. Steady. Steady. Yes boy. Oh near the top. Pedal. Pedal. Right. Now we're coming into that on-off. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's where I headbutted your back. Okay. So don't Yes mate. We are tandem four-cross experts. Fair play doing it in the back bro. I'll just get like that real just tight. I think before I was really worried about trying to look past you, but now I know the track as well. You're just really like dense. The one thing I could have is clipping pedals. We've completed a full track at speed. I think we do this. It's narrow, which we don't like, but it's smooth, which we do like. It's a dual slalom, even in one lane. We'll have to carry some speed to get those swooping berms. I'm going. You ready? That's it. That's it. That's it. Full power. Oh, we're going to get air mate. Yes Jonno. I'm on it. I'm on the brakes mate. We're heavy. Slow down. I'm on the brakes. I'm on the brakes. Slow down. I am trying, but you're heavy. I promise I'll get off. We're okay. This looks like a sender. Yeah, boy. You're all right. You still on? Yeah, I'm on. Don't you rock like that. I can't even look where we go. I just stare at the floor. Well done. Getting way better. We're forming a partnership, aren't we? This track reminded me how much we're still wobbling. We're absolutely bouncing off each side of it like a bowling ball with the barriers up. Jonno's doing a tiny bit of lean and by the time I compensate, he's trying to lean it back and that's how things happen. Pretty stoked we can do tracks, but I don't actually think we've done a full jump yet. Full two wheels of air. It's like jumping a spirit level. Think how far the front of the spirit level has to go before the back wheel's even in the air. I think I'll be four foot off the ground. At the point when I'm leaving. Yeah, I'll be really up there. Even if your back tire gets two inches of air. We've won. We have jumped tandem and finished a full downhill track and just learned to ride it together, which is sick. Then I think we could upgrade the thing and come up with some new ideas. Do some proper stuff because it is a bag of spanners that bike. This is the jump. It's not great, but it's what we're going to work with. It hardly lines up. Just for your wheel to land there, Jonno, I'm going to land here. It's like a minimum of a 10 foot jump. Give me one of them. Let's go. No, we have to go fast. It's like we have to go the speed that you would go down there. We do. Yeah, but we have to go fast enough that on a normal bike, you'd go 10 foot. All right. Right. Berm straight into left berm. Right. Gradual right berm. That's it. Now we're going to roll. You're doing good. Oh my good. Right. Inside. We're going left now. Right. Well, you've got this. If you could just keep going. Yeah. We're going to get air. Yes, I heard it. Yes, boy. I think we did. Yeah, I absolutely heard it. Chain slam. Coming in was the worst one by far. I can tell. You were weirdly quiet. Yes, boy. Did we get air? Yes. Right. We need to change this bike up. There's something wrong, isn't there? We're not bad bike riders, but that is the problem. What do people think? I think a bigger fork, shorter stem. We're already halfway there. We need your help. Bigger tires, better brakes. And where should we take it? I didn't expect it to be this hard. Once we started, I never thought we'd make it this far. We've progressed quite fast, didn't we? I think some mods and a new location and we're on. Tandem twins.