Nice piece of work; I especially like the HB tape job. Two suggestions. Add toe clips. On a tandem if one person looses contact with a pedal the partner will keep turning until it has hit the ankle a few times. Painful. Better to make certain your feet are attached. My wife doesn't bother with them on her single either but does on the tandem.
Drum brakes are very heavy and only marginally useful on long steep downhills. They're used to keep rims from overheating, but even riding in the Green Mts, we have not found one to be necessary. I do recommend using the most powerful cantis you can get (Pauls) but tandems have an advantage in that the rear wheel doesn't lift like a single, so that brake is more effective than one on a single. Whatever direction your relationship is going in, it will get there faster on a tandem! Keep communicating every little action. Michael On Sunday, June 29, 2014 11:53:33 PM UTC-4, Tony DeFilippo wrote: > > > http://dr2dc.blogspot.com/2014/06/introducing-drumroll-please-mr-burley.html > > My Thanksgiving '13 week C-list impulse buy and supposed 'winter' project > is finally rolling in style! I'm rocking dual Moustache bars, original > Nitto's for the captain (me) and flipped XO-3 MTB diameter ones for my > wife. That is newbaum's over one layer of inner tube, 2 coats of shellac > (done yesterday so the color is as brilliant as it'll ever be! Other > Riv-ish details include the MUSA steel frame of course, Suntour Barcon's > (the whole bike came w/ a Suntour XC group), dual Brooks Flyer saddles and > some Nitto stems. Last weekend was the ~18 mile W&OD trail shakedown ride > with unwrapped bars and today we did ~27 miles to Mount Vernon and back via > the Mount Vernon Trail and Old Town Alexandria. Both were unqualified > sucesses. > > I'm still getting used to the handling and braking responsibilities for > two, my trail etiquette today could have used some fine tuning but I'll get > smoother. I was impressed how well the bike responded to heavy pedalling > up some of the sharp, short hills on the way to MV. I'm hoping to get in > alot of tandem riding for the rest of this year! > > Tony > > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X4tBN-ga6jk/U7DUNK72IGI/AAAAAAAAEjY/kk85I27Uxv8/s1600/RAD_4199.jpg> > > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
