Great insight! Thank you for sharing it. One question on the barcon for the drag brake. What kind of cable do you use? Shifter cable that fits in the barcon but may be too thin, or brake cable that is thicker and may not fit through the barcon? Or were these Suntour barcons capable of handling both?
René On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:02 PM Ray Varella <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had a tandem for over 30 years and my drag brake is an Arai drum. > It has been controlled by a Suntour bar on until recently and it is now > controlled by a Suntour thumbshifter. > > In many years of tandeming, with numerous different stokers, it is my > humble opinion that it is asking a lot of a stoker to be attentive 100% of > the time so they can apply the drag/emergency brake. > For a dedicated tandem team that always rides together and the stoker is > always attentive, things may be different. > My personal experience is to communicate bumps and intentions to the > stoker but to handle all the controls for the sake of safety. > > I wonder if a barcon pulls enough cable for a disc? > > Ray > Vallejo CA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
