My wife and I love Zwift and cycling together. Would be great if we could select a Tandem bike and our joint power/weight be used to move our joint tandem bike! Something a bit novel, especially if the resistance on her turbo kept creeping up because I wasn’t pulling my weight 
This would be fun - although a bit niche.
Maybe niche - but I just logged in for the exact same request. Hear hear. Would be cool to have the odd tandem on a race - flying on the flats and downhills - crawling on the hills…
I can foresee 90-100 kg total weight racers.
How does wattage and speed add up on a tandem?
Do you have two power meters? Strava link?
Zwift could just keep it simple by letting two Zwifters link up
and using their joint weight/power to move the Tandem Avatar.
Could be fun.
This would be a two person meetup.
We would love this, we ride a tandem IRL, so this would be awesome.
Create a virtual tandem where any two riders riding at the same time can opt to combine their power (and weight) on a virtual tandem. Their avitars would show up in game together on a Zwift tandem. I know that my girlfriend and I would love this.
I think that will be fun, then we can have some tandem races.
Maybe could be interesting create tandems bikes for friends far away ride truly together.
Hi, we are also using our tandem with zwift du to covir-19…Are there any updates on how to set up a tendem properly with zwift?..thx
We would love that as well!
How is it this has only two (now three) votes?!?!?!?
They say tandems make or break relationships with approximately equal probability. I suspect the same would be true on a Zwift tandem.
Once the code was in place for a tandem, a triplet would be an obvious extension, or a quad. Basic tandem design is extendible:
Or maybe even an April Fools party bike. Imagine super-tucking this bad boy down the L’Alpe descent:
This would actually be really fun. Especially mixing and matching friends for friendly races!
It would be great if you could zwift with a friend on a tandem bike. So in the virtual world you’d be on a tandem bike, in real life the trainers would be synced up on power.
I too have wanted to do this. This is what I did:
- I set up a group ride and select the “stay together” option. My wife joins the ride.
- Combined the weight of the two riders in each of our profiles.
- We have a CycleOps Fluid2 trainer that we hooked the tandem up to.
- I used one Wahoo speed, cadence and heart rate monitor and when my wife and I log into Zwift independently, Zwift picks up the sensors simultaniously from both accounts (only I pick up the heart rate monitor, my wife uses her fitbit).
- At the selected time, we both log in and start the ride.
Our avitars are not on a tandem, but we stay together, our power output is the same and higher than what we do independently. We fly down hill, but uphill is slow (just like tandem riding on the road!). So it is realistic and as close to tandem riding as one can get on Zwift. I welcome any thoughts to making it better.
My wife and I just started Zwifting, but we have been a tandem crew for almost 20 years. I would also really enjoy this feature! We participated in many Tandem-TTs during the early '00s.
My wife and I both ride singles on zwift and would enjoy the option to ride our tandem. We tour with our tandem, and my son and I have raced with it several times and it was a great FUN!!
Please concentrate on necessary things like cleaning up code. This idea is too niche and completely unecessary.