Welcome to x2Cycle!

x2Cycle is a company developing unique and innovative bicycle products. Our premier product is the Tandem Rack.

What is the Tandem Rack?

The Tandem Rack looks just like a slick cantilever style bike rack, but it has a secret. Hidden inside the body is a telescoping tube that extends out and attaches to a trailing bike to let two people stay together for any part of a ride without having to buy a traditional tandem bike. Whether you are at the beginning, middle or end of a ride, you can pull out the telescoping tubing, snap it onto the rear bike with the special connector, and voila! Bike to tandem in seconds.

Why ride connected?

Anyone who has ever been on a seven-mile ride with a 9-year-old who's too big for a trail-a-bike but doesn't want to pedal any more after the first three miles would know the answer to this one. But occasionally we get this question from confirmed bachelors or hard core solo bikers.  There are other great uses for it too. Have you ever:

• Ridden with your partner who rides a lot faster/slower than you?
• Been on a group ride where one person can't quite keep up?
• Wanted to ride in tandem just for efficiency or fun but not have to buy or lug around a traditional tandem bike?
• Been tired of looking over your shoulder to find your kid on a long ride?
• Ridden with a child wants to ride connected part of the ride but by himself for other parts?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, the Tandem Rack could be for you. 

One user put it this way: "My wife and I bike a lot these days and I was always having to wait for her to catch up because she can't keep the same pace, especially up hills. Now we can stay together and cover a lot more distance in the same time. It's a lot more fun for both of us"

Is it easy to use?

Just about anyone who tries the Tandem Rack for the first time, kids or adults, finds it's, well... just like riding a bike. Just about everyone gets it right the first time. You start and stop the same way and once you get going you just need to communicate with each other about turns or stopping. But even if one rider gets distracted, the Tandem Rack has built-in safety release features that will disconnect the linking bar should an unsafe situation arise. For example, if either rider falls or should the rear bike start to pass the front bike, the linking bar will detach from the bikes. Click here for more information or here to see it in action (LINK to video).

Biking connected is a little different than biking separately (as it is on a traditional tandem or when using a trail-a-bike type of product). But just about any kid or adult who can already ride a bike will be comfortable within minutes of riding connected for the first time.

For more information on how it works, see our detailed Tandem Rack page.

US and foreign patents pending.