Seth, Santana stopped making the Noventa a few years back. It was a fillet brazed frame, very well done, smooth welds and very clean. We toured with fenders on ours and maybe 700x 28's tires. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Vidal" <skvi...@gmail.com> To: <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:47 AM Subject: [RBW] Re: tandems and touring
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, MichaelH <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jim, thanks for the link to the tandem group. I subscribed right away > but don't have time right now to search the archives. I also hesitate > to take this group off in a direction it wasn't intended for, but > maybe Steve could answer two quick, simple, and maybe dumb questions. > > Santana doesn't list the Noventa on its web site, so have been > focused on the Arriva frame. Do you know what the tire capacity is, > and how well its designed to take fenders and racks for touring? > > I keep reading about "Tandem Cranks", but don't remember ever seeing > one on a mfg web site. I would assume that the stoker's crank is a > standard crank, a longer axle, and a SS crank; and the pilot's crank > is a standard SS crank. No? > the timing-chain between pilot and stoker is on the left. driveside for the captain is on the left. both sides are drive side for the stoker. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/tandem.html -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
