Let me show you around this tandem bike here. So if you come toward the sound of my voice, 
what you'll feel in the very back here is called the back tire. It's the rear wheel. 
You can spin it as much as you want. You're spinning it. So now when it's right side up 
the bike as upside down, right now, when it's right side up, this will make it go forward. 
Well, let me show you this right here, so I'm going to take these pedals, sowe should feel this right here,
this is the pedal all right. And there's also this is the Stoker's pedal right here is what you're feeling. 
Now I'm at the pilot's position of the bike, so when I push on the pedals, feel that pedal ready.
It's moving too right. Can move it every which way. Let me say that this is connected by a chain, 
the chain is right here. It's kind of it's the metal, it's called chain. It's full of links 
and it connects the pedals and the pilot's position to the back pedal of the stoker, 
and the inner part of the pedal connects with the chain, so it makes it all move together. 
OK! The Stoker's position is right in front of you. You can feel the seat right here 
and a little to your right is the Stoker's handlebars. You feel those? So that's just a big,
it's like a V-shaped or W-shaped or U-shaped bar that is connected to the pilot's seat. 
There's a little bar in the middle here that goes right to the end of the pilot's seat 
and keeps you connected. Now, do you feel on the handlebars the very end? It's just the 
bar right? Nothing else is there. But on the pilots bars,move a little further back, 
there's a lot more going on up here. So what you actually just felt is the shifter? 
Listen closely ready? Now watch your hands.You hear that? You hear all those clicks, 
so that's going to shift the gears well, I just messed up it's called the shifter, 
and that helps you pedal easier or harder depending on what you need. Now here, 
feel the handlebars again at the very end right here. That's called the brakes. 
The right one controls the back wheel.So when I squeeze that, the back wheel 
is going to stop. Now if you come towards me.I'm going to go around the bike.
We're moving over the front wheel. That's going to be right here, right up here, 
a little higher up. That's going to control the front brakes. So when I squeeze that,
the front brakes going to stop, I'm going to move the bike up a little further 
in front of you and put your put your hand down right here. That's the pilot's seat. 
Move a little further up. That's the Stoker's handlebar.A little further down 
is a Stoker's seat and then a little more. That's the rear wheel. 

So, Lylah, before we start riding, there's a few more things for you to go over, OK? 
So in a car, you know how you can turn left or right, and there's a little 
signal that does that. Well since cyclists are on the road so much. 
We also need to have left and right turn signals.I'm going to demonstrate for you 
and you can feel my arm as I do it. OK, OK, so I'm right in front of you.
I'm kneeling down right now if you want to put your hands on my shoulders 
or right about your level right now. So when we ride, we typically only use our left arm.
Our right arm is on the brakes in case we need to stop quickly. 
So if I wanted to say I'm turning left,I'm going to poke my arm out 
all the way straight. If you want to run your left arm, your left 
hand down to the left of my arm, so kind of move your arm. 
If I'm indicating I'm turning left, my fingers are pointing to the left, 
my arm is pointing to the left, and this is telling drivers I'm going left.

If I want to go right now, I bend my elbow up. So that way, my right, 
my left hand is facing up and my palm is toward the drivers. 
You want to feel that. So same thing is beginning, but my my elbow would point
my elbow go straight up. Now, if I want to say I was stopping,
you know, I'm going to a stop sign, I'm going to a light, 
I'm going to bend my elbow down.If you want to feel 
that same thing as before, but we're going all the way down.
This is telling drivers, I'm stopping. I'm going slower. 
Now on a tandem, while we also do those signals. 
We also can communicate with each other. If I was saying I'm going left, 
I'd say I'm going left or I'm going right when we want to stop 
and we need to put our foot down. We say stopping in three, two, one.
And then we say stopping on our right leg. Now that we went over our cues
for turning on a tandem as well as our hand signals, 
when we're turning left, right or stopping, we need to stand out a little. 
So you know how in cars there's tail lights and headlights 
for other drivers and our people to see cars coming and going. 
So bikes have the same thing, and it's really important 
that we have these on our bikes, too. On most bikes, it's important 
that it comes with a tail light and especially important 
that we go out and buy a headlight.So drivers and other 
cyclists can see us coming. 

Another thing that helps us stand out in daytime or 
nighttime is our clothing. It's important to make sure 
we have bright clothing on. Your green shirt 
and the pink shirt underneath it, are great color choices 
because especially the pink one, because A, it's bright 
and B, if you're riding next to grass, it doesn't blend in 
and stands out real well so other drivers can see you.

What I have here with me is a helmet.
This helmet goes on your head and we never really should ride 
without a helmet on. It protects our head. We need our head. 
We only have one head, right? We need to protect that head. 
The way to test the helmet is on securely and properly is to 
take your index and middle finger and try to touch your 
neck underneath the strap you want to go right under your chin. 
Can you easily fit two fingers under there? Yeah. 
So it means you need to make it a little bit tighter, just ever so much.
Now we've got to make sure it's tight around our head, too. 
So in the back of your head here, you want to take your take 
one of your hands, you feel this little circle
thing back here? This controls how tight the helmet is 
on the back of your head. So I can loosen it. 
I may loosen it all the way.Now do me a favor. 
I need to shake your head and answer this question, OK. 
Do you like ice cream? Do you like homework? 
Was it pretty easy to move the helmet around it and move 
around a lot? Yeah, OK, let me try tightening it. 
Do you hear all those clicks? That mean it's getting tighter? 
Did the helmet move a lot? Not really, OK, that means, 
that's pretty good. All right. 

Now that we covered the bike itself and the helmet, we're 
going to actually start riding, OK.So you're going to be the 
stoker in this case, all right. I'm going to be the pilot, 
so I sit in the front and you sit in the back. 
Do you know how to get on a tandem bike? No. 
OK, so you want to do is come, take one step to your right.
And if you feel down here, there's a little there's a little bar, 
but a foot lower than your seat, your seat is here in your bar here.
You're going to hold on to the handlebar and try to put your leg over this bar,
so your right leg over. There you go. How do you know how to start 
riding a tandem bike? Pedaling, pedaling yeah, but as you can see, 
we are sitting on the ground right now, with our feet on the ground. 
We need to start riding, though. So how this happens is 
I'm going to say which foot is going to go on the pedal. 
I'm going to pick. I'm going to pick the right one. 
So I'm going to swing this around and I'm gong to put my right foot 
down in the pedal. OK, do you have your right foot on? 
And what happens is I'm going to give a three, two, one go.
And when I say go, we're going to lift our left 
foot off the ground and start pedaling, OK? 
Are you ready? All right. three, two, one, Go.
Take your left foot up. You're doing a good job pedaling. 
Now, do you know how to stop pedaling? So what happens is the same way
we started pedaling, we're going to put one foot on the ground 
when I say so, OK. We're going to put our left foot 
on the ground in three, two, one and stop.
Now you get off the bike first this time.So watch your step, your left, 
your right foot over. I'm going to step my foot over. 
And that's how we get off tandem bike. 

Today was my first time on a tandem bike, the most challenging part 
was getting on to the bike. I liked how it was going on really fast.
It was fun and I like it. It's much different than I normally do
at home with a pull behind bike.I'm going to ask Mom if we can get one of
these fun bikes.