The Rideboards, (forums), are organized by state or province thus far.  If you live in a country *other* than the US or Canada and want a forum for your area, just let us know.  We’ll be happy to create it *as long as you will use it*!

Additionally, the forums can be broken down further by region or area of the state.  You’ll note that Florida already is somewhat, but we have no idea what your “region” of your state might be known as, so please clue us in and we’ll be happy to create that sub-forum as well.

Feel free to upload pictures, maps, cue sheets and whatever you have on a ride or route.  That’s the idea.  If it’s a regular ride, punch the radio button at the bottom of your post to make it a long term “sticky” or even a never ending ”announce” post.  Those posts will only get pruned manually as they are no longer valid.

The rules of who can post and where are in the “Announcements” section under “Forum FAQs”.  Be sure to read those as it will saves us all a “spot of bother” as Phil Liggett might say! 

But, the bottom line is POST!  Post about the better tandem routes in your area, post about your intention to ride any mass ride, and post about riding from your front door.  If you like riding tandems with other teams, YOU have to step up to

The word “blog is just a contraction of web log.  Think of it as an online journal that helps everyone who reads it to find everything you ever had to say!

Blog software allows you to publish anything from a major work to a paragraph, and WordPress’ blog software makes it so easy that anyone who can type their name and check a few option boxes can publish their pearly prose to the web!  Once you start posting, it files each post away for you both chronologically and according to categories you select.  And although you can have a static (fixed) page as your home page like I do here, the default blog has chronologically rotating ”posts” on their front pages.

So if you only want to publish a thought or two, it doesn’t look “lost” on a full page of nothingness.  It shows up at the top of the existing blog page, pushing the last post down into the number 2 spot, and so on.

You can determine exactly how many recent posts you want on your front page, and the excess then get archived away into the chronological and categorical listings I mentioned earlier.  You can also upload pictures into your blogs and truely give the tandem community a sense of who you are.

Other registered TandemRides users can also leave permanent comments on your posts if you allow it, (your choice), and you can even invite others to post on your blog.  With your own blog you don’t have to worry about offending some segment of society or other, as this is not a “list” that’s pushed out to all subscribers.  People can voluntarily ”subscribe” to your blog if they want, but if they don’t all they miss out on is you!

So blog away!  This is the TandemRides site, so we *do* expect you to get back to talking tandems sooner or later, but it is also *your* blog.  So have fun!