Help Identifying Tandem
01-20-08, 07:28 PM
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Help Identifying Tandem
Hello all. We have a couple of tandems and just ride them for leisure. Today I acquired this one. Any help identifying this bike would be appreciated.
I'm guessing it is a road or touring tandem and someone added the apes. What I do know...
It's a lugged frame. Looks like a threadless headset. Rear facing drop outs. Euro eccentric bottom bracket. Has braze ons for a tire pump. Other braze on bracket things that I don't know what they are for. One looks like it's for a coaster brake arm yet it's too far forward. Also a couple on the seat stays and one on the front fork.
It now has a Shimano 3 speed rear w/o coaster brake. 3 speed handlebar shifter has just been screwed to the frame. It has no rear brake at all. Has a front drum brake. Wheels are mismatched and I'm guessing neither are original. Also think the fenders might have been added.
More detail photos here
Our other tandems here
Our clubs tandem cruise night
Thanks for reading.
I'm guessing it is a road or touring tandem and someone added the apes. What I do know...
It's a lugged frame. Looks like a threadless headset. Rear facing drop outs. Euro eccentric bottom bracket. Has braze ons for a tire pump. Other braze on bracket things that I don't know what they are for. One looks like it's for a coaster brake arm yet it's too far forward. Also a couple on the seat stays and one on the front fork.
It now has a Shimano 3 speed rear w/o coaster brake. 3 speed handlebar shifter has just been screwed to the frame. It has no rear brake at all. Has a front drum brake. Wheels are mismatched and I'm guessing neither are original. Also think the fenders might have been added.
More detail photos here
Our other tandems here
Our clubs tandem cruise night
Thanks for reading.
01-20-08, 10:45 PM
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My guess for the braze-on on the right fork is that it was for a headlamp. That may be a clue to its origins -- Britain or the Continent; I think I've read that they were different but I forget which side of the channel put their lamps on the right side. Might have been the British, to have them nearer the center of the road, or might have been the French, to illuminate the gutter.
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My guess for the braze-on on the right fork is that it was for a headlamp. That may be a clue to its origins -- Britain or the Continent; I think I've read that they were different but I forget which side of the channel put their lamps on the right side. Might have been the British, to have them nearer the center of the road, or might have been the French, to illuminate the gutter.
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The lower braze-ons on the fork are probably for a rack, like those on the seat stays, if they are symmetrical. The one on the right side of the fork could also be for a generator. I'd be surprised if it has a threadless headset. The clamp above the headset bearings might be what remains of a bracket to hold a front light.
I'd ask in the classic and vintage forum someone there might be able to help you identify it.
I'd ask in the classic and vintage forum someone there might be able to help you identify it.
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"Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred
Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"_krazygluon
