Me and mine borrowed a Burley tandem for a couple months last summer. Used
it as a kid hauler both around town and on a week long tour. Watched CL for
6 months and nothing even remotely suitable came up. After looking at stock
models we ended up ordering a custom to better fit 93/78 PBH and
In addition to what Steve has noted there is also an issue of strength.
The captain needs to keep the bike upright while the stoker mounts and
when at stops like traffic lights, where the pilot puts a foot down while
the stoker stays clipped in. This is easy as long as the bike remains
Fair enough, but I think the notion of sufficiency is relevant here. One
being stronger doesn't necessarily mean the other is not strong enough. The
same goes for experience.
See http://www.gtgtandems.com/tech/femcaptain.html for an alternative view.
ted
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 10:20:39
I am sure Jim knows well where of he speaks, so I count my wife and I as
very lucky to have gotten a used tandem that suits us fairly well for far
less than 5k, and through RBW no less.
What I don't get though, is why virtually no enthusiastic husbands seem
to let their wives drive. I can see
On 02/08/2014 12:03 PM, ted wrote:
I am sure Jim knows well where of he speaks, so I count my wife and I
as very lucky to have gotten a used tandem that suits us fairly well
for far less than 5k, and through RBW no less.
What I don't get though, is why virtually no enthusiastic husbands
seem
Here's my tandem. My stokers are 4, 6, and 8 years old. The oldest has been
known to roll 70-mile hilly days back to back.
http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0099009/photos/twowheelflight/4707219723/
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Fat front tandem-that's awesome!
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
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Here's my tandem. My stokers are 4, 6, and 8 years old. The oldest has
been known to roll 70-mile hilly days back to back.
Here's one solution I found...
http://www.instructables.com/id/brilliantly-simple-tandem-bike/?ALLSTEPS
On 2/7/2014 11:16 AM, Toshi Takeuchi wrote:
Hey Jim, where is your quad bike or better yet your quint family bike? :)
--Those are some serious tires!
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:02
Beautiful setup! Like the water bottle on the stoker stem...
Mary Gersema
Washington, DC
On Friday, February 7, 2014 12:02:29 PM UTC-5, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
wrote:
Here's my tandem. My stokers are 4, 6, and 8 years old. The oldest has
been known to roll 70-mile hilly days back to
- he was much more into downhill speed than I ever was.
His wife later thanked me for training him how to be a good captain. :-)
Yea, it took me awhile to catch on that Pat's screaming on the downhills
wasn't about the big O
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Hey Jim, where is your quad bike or better yet your quint family bike? :)
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
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Here's my tandem. My stokers are 4, 6, and 8 years old. The oldest has been
known to roll
I have been trying not to buy one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Giordano-Viaggio-Tandem-White-Pearl/dp/B004Q3PE30/ref=sr_1_3?s=cyclingie=UTF8qid=1391696071sr=1-3
But I know that for $500 to my door I will be getting one sooner or later.
Its cheap, I am sure I could up-spec it a bit with what I
Hey Bill, You can also use crank shorteners to ride with the kids on
the tandem. My short-legged 9 yr old son uses crank shorteners now.
My daughter can't use them yet.
I have a Santana 26 cro-moly tandem. Wonderful bike with thousands of
miles with the kids. (I also have a 700c triplet bike that
yeah, I probably could have done that. Now, if I do what I should now,
I'll just pony up for a new Ritchey double breakaway and run it 650B.
On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 3:36:00 PM UTC-8, ttoshi wrote:
Hey Bill, You can also use crank shorteners to ride with the kids on
the tandem. My
My sister and I ride a 1976 Motobecane tandem we got a few years ago.
Has bar end shifters, a TA triple and a frozen captain's seat post. Lucky seat
height is right.
It's pretty Granted out. Shellaced bar tape and twine, a Hobo bag hanging on
stoker bar and a little joe bag flipped backwards
There are tons of really cheap $100 - $200 tandems on craigslist. I just
bought a 1969 Schwinn Twinn for $125. Obviously this isn't an event grade
bike but my girlfriend and I have had a good time playing around with it in
the city.
I would suggest you consider picking up something
My buddy had his Cannondale tandem set up for him with his two daughters -
the taller as stoker and the much shorter daughter on a Burley Piccolo
trailer bike.
On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:51:06 PM UTC-6, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Jan 31, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Bill Lindsay tape...@gmail.com
Here's our Santana set up with Albas front and rear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnyriv/12235116233/ I've had it since the
mid 90s. The rides these days are shorter and flatter as my wife is much
more comfortable on her single and our overall power has decreased. She is
very sensitive to
My wife and I ride Rivendell models -- Romulus, Rambouillet, others -- and
after riding a Cannondale MTB tandem with slicks drop bars for awhile we
went to Co-Motion.
We asked Dwan to replicate our positions on a 57 Romulus in the back and a
58 Rambouillet in the front and set up the
I believe this was GP's tandem at one
time: http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/wsf-0043.htm
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My tandem is an Ibis Touche. 700c with Jack Browns currently. My wife and
I have only ridden it a couple times, before having kids. I did a century
on it with a guest stoker about 4 years ago, though, and it was great. It
has a unicrown fork with tons of clearance, so I could go a lot
Bill,
Enjoy the window for it is ephemeral.
Curtis who knows from experience McKenzie
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Bill Lindsay tapebu...@gmail.com wrote:
My tandem is an Ibis Touche. 700c with Jack Browns currently. My wife
and I have only ridden it a couple times, before having
On Jan 31, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Bill Lindsay tapebu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hopefully there will be a small window where he's tall enough to ride the
tandem with me and not old enough to realize his dad is a huge dork and not
want to ride it with me.
The dilemma of fatherhood in a nutshell.
...it's going to be on like Donkey Kong...his dad is a huge dork...
Heh, phrases like that probably won't help your case...B-)
Steve
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Curtis McKenzie cmcy...@gmail.com wrote:
Bill,
Enjoy the window for it is ephemeral.
Curtis who knows from experience
OUCH! Owned!
In reality, he's always begging to go on S24Os, so I expect he'll be game
for a lot of things this summer. Although he likes playing video games as
much as any pre-teen, he also is an expert at both Cribbage and Pinochle,
so I'm not going to expect him to be a completely run of
Sounds a lot like mine and things turned out very well indeed!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnyriv/12241381705/
On Friday, January 31, 2014 4:06:03 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote:
OUCH! Owned!
In reality, he's always begging to go on S24Os, so I expect he'll be game
for a lot of things this
FWIW, I only (relatively) briefly lost interest in hanging out with my
dad-we canoed together when I was in my late teens and camped and hunted
together when I was in my 30's. Dad was never a cycler but if he had been,
I don't doubt we would've done that together too.
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at
Very good stuff, John Philip! Thanks for sharing that, and thanks stevef,
too. I'm looking forward to the next few years.
On Friday, January 31, 2014 1:52:17 PM UTC-8, stevef wrote:
FWIW, I only (relatively) briefly lost interest in hanging out with my
dad-we canoed together when I was
I love tandems, and so does my Glorius-riding stoker! That said, I highly
doubt she would want to sit on the back of one for a century. There's no
such thing as not pedalling unless you have a Da Vinci type independent
system http://www.davincitandems.com/dv2.html
Used Santanas are the most
My buddy last year sold his too large (for his new wife) Cannondale tandem,
and bought a great smaller used steel Santana. They're both very happy
with the bike and we ride together frequently, which keeps me chasing them
very hard down hills. They trained last summer to ride Donner Pass in
...and it's relisted at $1275. Thank LOB it's small for me
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:17:51 AM UTC-8, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote:
I love tandems, and so does my Glorius-riding stoker! That said, I highly
doubt she would want to sit on the back of one for a century. There's no
such
I didn't catch the re-listing. A few sizes too small for me as well, praise
the briny depths!
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:05:11 PM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote:
...and it's relisted at $1275. Thank LOB it's small for me
On Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:17:51 AM UTC-8,
Rachel and I had too great a height difference (captain SH 83cm, stoker
63cm) for a production tandem, so we were in custom or Bike Friday waters.
We went Bike Friday in the end. If we were to do it over, I think we would
find the tallest frame the stoker could straddle and then hack the
captain's
A few years ago, Grant mentioned a Riv tandem, but he wasn't sure that
there would be enough demand because of the cost. We bought a used custom
1996 Santana Noventa (fillet brazed Columbus Nivacrom) built for a couple
in Denver, CO. I had a hard time finding a used tandem that would give me
My little brother (not a Riv rider... yet.) and his wife took a purple
Santana tandem on RAGBRAI last year. They made it without killing each
other.
I'll keep an eye out for your Lavender Limo.
Tim
RAGBRAI is going to be flat and short this year, so we hope to ride the
Tandem for the first
As has been pointed out having the stoker coast is only possible only the
DaVinci independent coasting system. OK I guess, and many people like it
but I wouldn't recommend it. Do a lot of research before you buy because a
lot of what you take for granted about riding a single is not
Wow! I didn't know tandemming was so complex.
I really don't know anything about them and thought the two could just hop on
and ride.
Definitely sounds like research for this project will be needed.
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In the SF Bay Area, there are a couple (a few?) Ibis tandems on Craigslist
right now. And some cheaper Santana ones. A cool old British one.
Maryland looks a little bleaker:
http://baltimore.craigslist.org/bik/4272347660.html
http://delaware.craigslist.org/bik/4295097541.html
Philip
Wow! I didn't know tandemming was so complex.
I really don't know anything about them and thought the two could just hop on
and ride.
Definitely sounds like research for this project will be needed.
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As a stoker, I have to chime in. I've tried like 5-6 different tandems and
here's what I know:
It does make a difference in how fast you want to go- the lightest frame
will go very fast. However- you really have to check your brakes because
when you go downhill on a tandem, you go much, much
Thanks, Eunice!
Stokercam is really cool. Fun pics!
Thanks for the info.
I live in Ellicott City, Maryland and I know where Mt. Airy Bikes is. I
have only been there once though, but not inside.
My wife is a 5'3, 11mph, casual commuter, and I thought it would be fun
to bring her along for
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