On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, MichaelH <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Eric, > > Boy it seems pretty early in the year to being doing a century, even > on a tandem. Of course, here in Vt. the cycling season is just > beginning for hard core riders. I've been laid up with a bum foot for > six months now, so any riding sounds awfully good to me. > > I'd love to hear your opinions about the tandem. I've got my wife to > agree, at least in principal, to buying one, but since there are no > dealers in VT, it takes a lot of effort just to look at one. Montreal > about 2 hours away and Boston is 3 1/2. > > From what I can gather on the web, Santana or Bilenkey would be my > leading choices. The Santana web site has lots of words, but ends up > being short on critical info, like tire capacity, fender & rack > attachments, etc. Also, everybody quotes prices for whole bikes, > including stuff I don't think I want, like a carbon fork, and 10 speed > SIS. Without any experience, it's hard to know what's really > essential in a good tandem.
If you can find one that's the right size - a used or NOS burley is a good tandem, too. There are some on ebay from time to time. -sv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
