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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
San Diego Custom Bike Show Coverage…
This will likely build through the weekend as more articles and photo galleries from the 2011 San Diego Custom Bike Show begin to emerge. Article #1 – Red Kite Prayer / Patrick Brady’s first impressions and a few early photos in … Continue reading
The Wal-Mart of Bike Shops Has Come To Our Fair City…
For the 20 years that I have lived in Georgia we’ve been fortunate enough to have a really good local bike shop here in Marietta, Georgia: Free Flite Bicycles. The store was first opened in 1978, 13-years before I arrived … Continue reading
Lane County’s Bicycle History… Co-Motion & Burley
I stumbled across two oral history interviews that were part of a project funded under the Teaching American History grant awarded to the Lane Education Service District. This particular project included 10 different videos and oral histories and two in particular … Continue reading
eMotion Rollers… An Overdue Follow-Up
It’s been a bit over 6 weeks since I took delivery of my InsideRide eMotion Rollers, so it’s probably time to do some kind of update to my last entry, “Good First Impression“. As I mentioned in a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Industry News, Technology & Equip., Uncategorized
Tagged emotion rollers, kreitlers, livingood, tandem bicycle, tandem bike, tandem cycling, tandemgeek, tandems
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Bina Bilenky & The San Diego Custom Bicycle Show
Wow, Steven Bilenky’s daughter Bina Bilenky has been a busy gal again… OK, busier than usual as she always seems to be busy. Guess the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree, as her dad Stephen Bilenky has always had … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Industry News, News items from the web, Pimpin' for our Friends, Shameless Promotions, Tandem Folks, Technology & Equip., Whimsical Or Entertaining
Tagged bicycle show, bilenky tandem, bina bilenky, livingood, San Diego Custom Bicycle Show, tandem bicycle, tandem cycling, tandemgeek, thetandemlink.com
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Nice focus piece on lug work at NAHBS…
I’ve mentioned the blog Red Kit Prayer in the past as being one of my regular reads. Excellent writing by a great collection of industry folks who know what they’re writing about and how to write. Patrick Brady (aka, Padraig) … Continue reading
Posted in Industry News, News items from the web, Technology & Equip.
Tagged Lug Work, NAHBS, Patrick Brady, Red Kit Prayer
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Jtek Shiftmate Straight = Campy Ergo + SRAM
A few months back I got it into my head that I’d really like to see how a SRAM X9 or XO rear derailleur might work mated to my Campy Ergo shifters. Our Record long-cage rear derailleur has always worked … Continue reading
Dwan Shepard Does 20 Questions With Bike News Asia
You may recall an item from our blog a few weeks back where Co-Motion Cycles announced an end to their 9-year run with the Co-Motion Classic tandem stage race in Eugene, Oregon. However, at the tail end of that announcement … Continue reading
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Tagged co-motion, dwan shepard, tandem bicycle, tandem bike, tandem cycling, tandemgeek, thetandemlink.com
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NAHBS 2011… Tandems
With a tip of the hat to our friend Ritterview (Bill V.) from BikeForums.net, there were several very interesting tandems on display at this year’s North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin, Texas. Bill has created a Flickr album where … Continue reading
The Outspoken Cyclist: My Favorite Interviews…
Back in November I posted an entry that introduced readers to a new weekly public radio program called the Outspoken Cyclist hosted by long-time friend Diane Lees of HubBub Custom Bicycles in Cleveland, Ohio. It airs every Saturday evening at … Continue reading
Ventana El Conquistador S&S… what a deal!
No, we haven’t bought a new Ventana off-road tandem… but one of our Double Forte list members has and it’s spectacular. The photo at right is what Sherwood Gibson has up on their El Conquistador de Montanas S&S Webpage at … Continue reading
New Calfee Website Looks Like It’s Almost Done…
Every once in a while I’ll get another ‘hit’ on my daily Google search results from Calfee’s development website. I mentioned this in an entry back in November entitled, “Sneak Peek – Calfee’s 2011 Website” when it first popped-up. Well, … Continue reading
Edge Composites Now ENVE… Old News, But…
Back in August, Edge Composites announced (see PR below) it was changing its name to ENVE due to a trademark issue that developed as their products entered the European market. According to BikeRadar.com, Edge branded components would be sold through … Continue reading
