One detail that no one else has mentioned.... The first tandem my wife and I purchased was a custom steel Dennis Bushnell. It had the lively handling that I preferred in my singles bikes, but one needed to wrestle it around, and the slightest movement from my wife would affect the steering.
We replaced it with a Ti Santana. Santana's have relatively more stable handling--the first time we rode one it felt like a freight train, but after riding tandems for awhile, we both saw that Santana's approach to handling was preferable on a tandem--no more stoker steer, the bike didn't need to be muscled around as much. All in all, on tandems, stable handling works vastly better, even on a performance bike. For me, that was counterintuitive. This is going to sound strange, but one benchmark for telling if a particular tandem's frame geometry will work well is to see how the bike rides without a stoker. If it rides well (which our Bushnell did) it may perform poorly with two riders on board. If it handles poorly when riding without the stoker (which describes our Santana) it may perform extremely well with two riders. Odd but true, at least for us. -- 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-bu...@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.
