If you want to study up on the end of the Burley co-op, there's a lot of material in the Tandem subforum. Based on that, it appears some smart MBA's ruined it from the inside and then an angel investor came through to keep it going as an Oregon company and not let it turn into Schwinn-InStep. However, they never made another tandem or recumbent.
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