Michael, tandems are wonderful! They equalize riding between unequal riders, so there's no waiting or hard feelings or anyone getting exhausted. If you and your wife ride at the same level (speed & endurance) it's not as big a deal, but if one is significantly stronger, it's the only way to enjoy the ride together. My wife ended up selling all her single bikes after we got into tandems.
I'd try to find an older Santana model. Rio is one of them, can't remember the others. We bought one used and loved it. Sold it for what we paid and bought a Co-Motion Double Espresso. Again used, but it was an upgrade and had 700C wheels. Tandems seem rather easy to find used it you're a bit patient, and significantly less expensive than new. Most are sized S, M, L, XL, so it's rather easy to find a good size for you. I'd encourage you to jump on in, the water's fine! Cheers, DE On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:42 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. > > There have been Riv rumors about a tandem for quite awhile and I'd be > game for a proto, if the price wasn't stratospheric. > > Michael > > > > On Mar 15, 2:31 pm, Eric Norris <campyonly...@me.com> wrote: > > Sorry, all ... try the photos again. They should be visible to anyone > > now. > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176...@n03/sets/72157615309647032/ > > > > Flickr is a bit confusing, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. > > > > --Ericwww.wheelsnorth.orgwww.campyonly.com > > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
