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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hilo Hawaii
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Bikes: Landshark, Kestrel Ironman, Giant Defy, Redline 925er, Orbea team Euskatel, AMP B2, Landshark e-Tandem, and, well you get the idea.
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Wow, lot of great stories out there. We had a tough time selling our Santana Arriva in the early 1990s, but fortunately the bike shop selling us our next tandem took it on consignment and off it went. Our (lighter 35 pounds)Rodriguez monuntain tandem with 650s wheels was sold (12 years later) immediately when someone asked about it, and then we bought the Cannondale road tandem, mostly for the Avid mechanical disc brakes to handle steep rainy descents.
I think disc brakes are the best things for tandem since suspension seatposts for stokers.
I'm thinking at our age (mid-60s) if there is another tandem left in our marriage we will look at an e-bike assisted tandem so the long climbs will not take us all day. Just going to swallow our pride with our reduced VO2max , but getting old sucks and we still love to ride.