on 3/29/09 8:04 AM, Steve Palincsar at palin...@his.com wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 09:00 -0700, Eric Norris wrote:
>> Yeah, temps were up almost 80.  We were reapplying sunscreen several
>> times.
>> 
>> A Riv tandem would be nice, but I'd hate to even think about sourcing
>> the many unique lugs you'd need to build one.  Maybe find an older
>> lugged steel tandem and rebadge it as a Resurrectio?  Our Santana is
>> fillet brazed steel, which is also very nice.
> 
> I still do not understand the point of a lugged tandem.  The lugs are
> non-existent, and hand-making them would be extremely expensive.  Lugs
> offer nothing but appearance over fillet brazing, no construction or
> performance advantage.  So, what's the point?

It would be the widest point on the bell curve, with the Riv Unicycle being
the other end of the spectrum.

- Jim "Collect 'em All!"

-- 
Jim Edgar
cyclofi...@earthlink.net

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