tandem and eliptical

The summer before I was married my buddy Josh told me that now was the time to make any last minute purchases while the money was still "my" money. Shortly after, I found a coupon for a welder and noticed some scrap steel lying around near my house. I took it as a sign and started teaching myself to weld, something I had wanted to do since I was little. Inspired by my cousin Mark, my first bike project was a tandem. Shortly after my wife was in California and saw an Elliptigo which she was excited about. I teased that we would get beat up riding that around Las Vegas, but I was half done building it by the time she got back. In Salt Lake City these bikes brought approving nods from policemen and big smiles from everybody on the sidewalk, in Las Vegas we mostly get weird stares...but were never beat up.  For some reason  these first projects never made the blog so here is a link to the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbwa_YOLxwg