tandem unicycle

I found a little:

Tandem

A "fair number of expert riders" have ridden "front-to-back" tandem
unicycles, including Ken Fuchs.

Two Japanese riders are pictured - this picture is from a, since
defunct, Japanese web-page. Unfortunately, I could never read the
caption to give them credit.

Klaus and Roland Bartl, from Munich rode on a tandem unicycle, 70 km (43
miles) ride along the Danube river from Passau, Germany to Linz,
Austria. This was a Guinness World Record.

Steve McPeak built a tandem in the 1970s where one rider sat above the
other. He then rode it (with an assistant) on a high-wire. This
appeared on a television show (along with his tall unicycle, described
above).

http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/unique.html

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The Unicycle Book by Jack Wiley has a picture of Steve McPeak's tandem
giraffe uni. The book is now out of print. You may be able to find it
at your library.

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The problem to making tandem unicycle is that if you have someone if the
front and back then it's not that likely that they are the same weight.
Even if they both pedal the same wheel then it doesn’t matter how fast
or slow they go to try and balance, they will fall due to the un-even
weight. Think of it like a seesaw and the middle is the wheel; even if
they both sit very close together the seesaw will still tilt in one
direction. I’m not sure how that one in the pic. did it put it’s still
worth a try.

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carsonpalooza said:

*they will fall due to the un-even weight.*

I have seen a father ride a sociable tandem (side-by-side) with his
elementary school-aged daughter. Big weight difference. The bike tilted
slightly toward the daughter. Duh.

Uneven rider weights will not be the hard part! Having watched expert
riders Ken Fuchs and Sem Abrahams struggle with a front-back tandem, I
know it would take a lot of practice for any pair of riders to have
success at it.

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carsonpalooza said:

The problem to making tandem unicycle is that ... it's not that
likely that they are the same weight. ... they will fall due to the
un-even weight.

And to think I though I saw a picture of a tandem being ridden on this
[http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/unique.html] page. Silly me, now that
I know it can't work. Thanks for clarifying.

Ken