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Things I Didn’t Delve Into During My Talk At Tandems East’s Expo….
At the end of my 40-minute “Tandem Geek Show” during last weekend’s Tandems East Expo I decided to test the audience’s threshold for interest by asking if there were any questions before jumping into some other topics. As I suspected, there … Continue reading
Tandem Club of America… Annual Membership Update
I received my 2013 TCA Membership Roster and, as I have done for the past nine years, I thought I’d share a quick look at the Tandem Club of America’s (TCA) demographics. You can find the full report HERE at … Continue reading
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Holy Cow; Over 200,000 Views!
I just noticed our Blog has surpassed 200,000 views sometime yesterday. This would be the count going back to our first blog entry in January of 2010. I thought I’d cut and paste in a by-monthly visits view of the data … Continue reading
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Chain Lube Update
Back in February I wrote about chain maintenance and noted…. Of course, now that it’s time to break out a fresh chain I must once again wrestle with the choice of lubrication. I’ve been using ProLink Gold (aka, ProGold) on … Continue reading
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3x the Fun: First Tandem Rally on a Triplet
If you are a regular reader and caught our Alabama Tandem Weekend reports, this isn’t exactly breaking news. However, I was so jazzed by the whole experience that I thought I’d share some additional comments pertaining to just the triplet … Continue reading
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Bengal MB700T Disc Brake… The Start of a New Product Test
Let me start off by saying we like product testing. Well, OK: I like product testing. There are just so many different ways to design and differentiate products that it’s hard to know what works well until you put it … Continue reading
Tandem Club of America… Annual Membership Update
I received my 2012 TCA Membership Roster and, as I have done for the last nine years, I thought I’d share a quick look at the Tandem Club of America’s (TCA) demographics. As always, my hand-tabulated counts from the membership listing … Continue reading
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Tweaking Bike Fit As Time Goes By: – 5 Millimeters = Sore No More
Regular readers may recall this item from the summary in my recent Santana Beyond review: Rider Comfort: My neck and shoulders were noticeably less “tight” after riding the Santana vs. our Calfee. This may have also been a result of the … Continue reading
2011 Santana Beyond Review – Beyond Sublime
TG’s Anti-Climatic Backwards Review Unlike most reviews that don’t summarize or score the subject of their review until the last paragraph, in this one you get the summary and specifications right up front… Diving into the details is optional. Cutting … Continue reading
2011 Santana Beyond Review – Introduction & Background
Santana could have named its flagship tandem ”Beyond Sublime“ That’s pretty high praise, but it’s truly well deserved. I say that if only because our benchmark is another tandem that offers sublime ride qualities: our ’08 Custom Calfee Tetra Travel Tandem … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Rallies… Chattanooga ’07 & ’11
Note: This is the sixth and final article in a six-part series of blog entries regarding our Santana Rally in Chattanooga. The Introduction can be found HERE, Day 1 can be found HERE, Day 2 can be found HERE, Day 3 can be found HERE, and Day 4 can be found … Continue reading
The Entry Level Tandem Price Gap
In my “pulse of the tandem market” update, I mentioned the entry-level tandem price gap and that bears some additional discussion, because it’s an interesting situation. Here’s the deal, if you’ve budgeted $3,500 or so for a new tandem the … Continue reading
Taking the Pulse of the Tandem Community
Some of the folks who are regular readers of Tandem@Hobbes, Double_Forte@YahooGroups, GA_Peaches@YahooGroups, and BikeForums.net may have noticed that I did not conduct a tandem enthusiast poll this past winter. It was an intentionally omission, i.e., I just didn’t feel like … Continue reading
Gates Sync Drive Wear & Tear: Update
Back on Feb 27th I posted an item based on a BikeForums discussion where a team that was an early adopter of the Gates Carbon Sync Drive was looking to hear from anyone who knew what to look for to determine … Continue reading
New Wheels for the Triplet! But Are My Rims & Tires Too Narrow?
It’s been both interesting & occasionally even informative to watch several different “threads” running on “wider is better” themes across cycling. Frankly, I believe that so long as the average recreational/sport cyclists use wheels and tires at pressures that fall … Continue reading →