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More and more organizations own a Fun2Go side-by-side tandem An example of such an organization is Stichting Fietsmaatjes Nederland. Fietsmaatjes is meant for people who can no longer cycle independently, but still like to do so. To be on the road outdoors, together with a nice buddy on an (electric) side-by-side tandem.A number of founders of Fietsmaatjes Gelderse Vallei have now developed the online planning system 'SamenFietsen', which makes planning bike tours with the duo bike a lot easier. Read more about this planning system, Fietsmaatjes and the Van Raam side-by-side tandem Fun2Go.
SamenFietsen is an online planning system created by Anja Kroodsma & Tjitze Smit. They started in 2017 with Fietsmaatjes Gelderse Vallei with several others. Tjitze and Anja have developed an online planning and administration system to facilitate the coordination of duo bike rides with Fietsmaatjes. An online planning system lowers the threshold to reserve a bike, as this is a lot easier and encourages volunteers to sign up.
SamenFietsen, after a test period at Fietsmaatjes Gelderse Vallei, is now also being used by other organisations and other Fietsmaatjes. It is possible to set up the planning system as desired and integrate it into your own website. The planning system can be viewed via a demo version. If you like the planning system, it can be purchased via the website of SamenFietsen. The planning system is now mostly used by Fietsmaatjes projects, but it is also very useful, for instance, for care institutions where many volunteers cycle with clients.
Read more on the website of SamenFietsen.
Foundation Fietsmaatjes is a foundation that is now well known throughout the Netherlands. Fietsmaatjes ('Cycling buddies') is meant for everyone who likes to cycle, wants to keep moving and loves social contact, but due to a disability can no longer cycle independently. The guests of Fietsmaatjes are often people with a disability of movement, hearing, vision, cognition (e.g. dementia), loneliness or balance. These guests are linked to a volunteer, a Fietsmaatje. The volunteers like personal contact and cycling. The volunteers cycle with the guest on a duo bike, on the duo bike the volunteer can steer, brake and pedal. The guest can pedal.
The goal is to offer people who still want to cycle, but are no longer able to do so on their own, cycling tours of about 1-3 hours. With these weekly or bi-weekly cycling tours the isolation of the guests is broken, the guests get outside again and they are in moving in a fun and social way. This often results in nice and special contacts between guests and volunteers.
At the moment there are 19 local Fietsmaatjes, of which 16 organisations cycle. In the Netherlands, 1353 guests and 1143 volunteers cycled together in 2019. Fietsmaatjes is growing very fast and have the goal to have at least 60 local Fietsmaatjes organisations by the end of 2022. (Source: Fietsmaatjes)
At the end of 2019,King Willem-Alexander visited the foundation Fietsmaatjes in Warmond. The foundation Fietsmaatjes is part of the Growth Programme of the Oranje Fonds and King Willem-Alexander is patron of this fund. During the surprise visit, the king met the volunteers and guests of Fietsmaatjes, and he took a ride on a Van Raam duo bike Fun2Go.
Read more about this visit in the article  "Dutch King cycles on Van Raam side-by-side tandem Fun2Go"
More than 20 years ago Van Raam, manufacturer of special needs bikes, already made a first version of a duo bike. In 2006 the first bike with the name Fun2Go was launched on the market. In the meantime the Fun2Go has been developed further and some very unique features have been added. The Fun2Go is a tricycle tandem in which the users sit next to each other, one person steers and both can pedal. Because the riders sit next to each other, they can communicate well and the main rider can keep a close eye on the other rider.
The side-by-side tandem has no entry and you take your seat on a comfortable chair. The Fun2Go is available with many options and accessories, such as electric pedal support, a reinforced frame, a rotating seat, a footplate or a mirror. View all options for the Fun2Go via the price list on the product page.
Unique features of the Fun2Go:
1 main rider, 1 'co-driver'
Very manoeuvrable, bike can rotate on its own axis
Perfect view and good contact with the co-driver
Available with many options and drive systems
Adjustable seats
Read more about the Fun2Go on the product page.
Van Raam has developed a protectionscreen for the Fun2Go, which allows users to go out together again during corona time to enjoy a bike ride. Want to know more about this screen? Read it in the article: 'Fun2Go duo bike with protection screen in times of corona'.
The protection screen is currently no longer available.
Many elderly people have difficulty going outside, cycling or going to an appointment by themselves, because exercise is no longer that easy. A number of special needs bicycles in the Van Raam product range can offer a solution by using them as a bicycle taxi for the elderly. Read more about the Van Raam bicycles as a bike taxi in this article.
Fietsmaatjes; in English bicycle mates, is a foundation where a volunteer and a guest, make wonderful cycling trips together on a side by side tandem​ with electric pedal support. The guests Fietsmaatjes can no longer cycle independently; thanks to Fietsmaatjes this is possible again! Together they have nice contact with eachother and they enjoy the surroundings while they keep on moving healthily.
Cycling is a great way to get exercise and stay mobile and active, not to mention it is very healthy. Cycling on a parallel tandem Fun2Go is also very sociable, because you don't sit behind each other, but next to each other. In the recent past many people have got such a bike and are happy to enjoy mobility again. Find out in this article what you report about the bicycle.
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