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Spring Tune Ups… Especially For The Gently Used Tandems
For those folks who put their tandems up for the winter, or for any teams that simply don’t give their tandems a lot of love — it’s time to think about a Spring Tune Up! Seriously, tandems really need attention … Continue reading
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Sebring Tandem Rally 2013, by Diana Mirkin
We are pleased to share a Florida PANTHERS Post-Event Report from our guest contributor Diana Mirkin. The third annual PANTHERS Sebring Tandem Rally was held March 22-24, 2013 at Chateau Elan, the resort hotel adjacent to the famous Sebring International … Continue reading
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Looking for Paralympic Tandem Team Captains: Road & Track…
Note that I’m posting this on behalf of Chazz Walker out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Please direct any questions to Chazz via email to: chazzwan@earthlink.net Hoping that this message will reach an interested captain with tandem racing legs. I am mentoring … Continue reading
2013 Tandems East Tandem Expo… It’s All About The People!!
Well, we had a GREAT time at the 2013 Tandems East Tandem Expo. As I mentioned in my earlier blog entry, “Tandems East Open House & The Tandem Geek Show“, this was our second tandem expo — the first time … Continue reading
Tandems East Open House & the Tandem Geek Show
This coming Saturday & Sunday Mel & Barbara Kornbluh will be holding their 25th annual Open House in Pittsgrove, New Jersey. Some of their guest speakers on Saturday will include Zack Strahley of Co-Motion, daVinci co-owner Brian Davis, Spinergy wheel expert Ric Becker of … Continue reading
Should We Be Flabbergasted, Flattered or Fhilosophical?
Yes, yes… we know philosophical begins with a ‘pf’ instead of an “fh” but it was just too hard to resist. Anyway, our good friend Michael S. over in Croatia dropped me a note the other day in which he … Continue reading
The Tandems of NAHBS 2013…
Ah, the 2013 North American Handmade Bicycle Show… the best thing to happen in American cycling since I don’t know when. Best of all, next year it will be in Charlotte, North Carolina! You can bet your boots that we’ll … Continue reading
Wow! Calfee Raises The Bar Again With NAHBS Tandems
If you hang out on Facebook and have “Liked” Calfee’s FB page, or are a regular on BikeForum.net’s tandem subforums then you’ve probably seen the two over-the-top tandems Calfee took to this past weekend’s North American Handmade Bike Show in … Continue reading
Newlywed Bina Bilenky Trahan on Tandems: Stoker’s Life
Stephen Bilenky’s daughter Bina, who has been mentioned several times on our blog before, recently penned an article that appeared on Embrocation Cycling Journal where she shares some anecdotes and insights on tandem cycling. It’s a quick and fun read … Continue reading
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Eastern Tandem Rally, Inc., Launches All-New Website!
This just in from our good friend Malcolm Boyd: the 2013 ETR rally schedule & a new look for their Website! The Eastern Tandem Rally organization is pleased to release its rally schedule for 2013. The Spring Thaw rally, co-sponsored … Continue reading
Knoxville Tennessee’s Club VIBES In The News….
Our friend and co-founder of Knoxville, Tennessee’s Club VIBES, Sue Buckley, wrote to let us know they were back in the news again. It was a very nice video report from local news station 10 WBIR that focused on a very … Continue reading
R&E Cycles of Seattle, WA… Why Aren’t All Shops Like This?
Just gotta throw out some “props” to Dan Towle and the folks at R&E Cycles up in Seattle, Washington. For the second time in three years Dan and his crew have been Johnny on the spot for me when I … Continue reading
Anatomy of a National’s Time Trial Machine: John Price’s Tiemeyer TT Tandem
John Price from Albuquerque, NM, wrote to let us know a little bit more about his Tiemeyer Signature Time Trial Tandem, following a big win at this year’s Master’s Road National Championships held on Sept 5-9 in Bend, Oregon. John is … Continue reading
S and S Bicycle Torque Couplings™: Did You Know?
For readers who may not know what as S and S Machine Bicycle Torque Coupling is, they allow full-size bicycle and tandem bicycle frames to be broken down into smaller sections that can be packed into what is essentially a … Continue reading
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 →