Michael, the tires on our Santana were 27" @ 28 mm wide mounted on 48 spoke wheels front/rear. We punctured only once in just under 2,000 miles—Anacortes, WA to Thief River Falls, MN...on a gravel road into Glacier NP. Quite a machine that was. We never touched our tool set.
BEST / Jock On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 6:25:42 PM UTC-8 Michael Hammer wrote: > Skinny tires on those tandems! Times have changed. Seems like a lot of > bike for those tires. > > On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 11:43:34 AM UTC-8 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! > wrote: > >> Am I understanding that this is you and your son, Jock? You could be >> *brothers. >> *What great photos and a great story. Though I will say that first photo >> of you and the little guy has me thinking he might have been safer stuffed >> in a Backabike bag of his own, but it was the 80s! >> >> L >> >> On Mar 5, 2023, at 12:08 PM, Jock Dewey <bikej...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/146626768@N06/50736923117/in/album-72157717416628946/ >> >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/146626768@N06/49733185021/in/album-72157717416628946/ >> >> Jock Dewey >> On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 6:23:32 AM UTC-8 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! >> wrote: >> >>> I was looking through an old photo album of my bikes. My boys were tiny, >>> my dog was young, and my Betty Foy was sparkly and new. But you look at >>> things through different eyes over the years, and today, I came across a >>> couple of regrettable old photos that made me want to cry and then laugh, >>> simultaneously. It was 2013. I was obviously the most excited person in my >>> family about biking. I had just gotten that Betty Foy and thus I could do >>> just about anything. I invented all sorts of adventures for us - fun things >>> but we had to get there by bike. I dragged my two tiny boys along, >>> regardless of their sub-standard bikes. Even the dog was not spared. Surely >>> this must be List-appropriate? There will be lots of photos of a Betty Foy, >>> and that very bike was the source of all the “adventures” I inflicted on my >>> tiny family members. >>> >>> (I’m going to post the photos, with commentary in the following entry. >>> This, because I have never figured out how to get photos posted in the body >>> of this message - I only can do it from email after the first post arrives >>> there. If anyone has a hot tip about that, I’m all ears.) >>> >>> Who else has tortured their family with their own love of bicycles? Who >>> else has told themselves, “Well, it’s good for them.” Who else was a slow >>> learner but eventually got their act together and bought better equipment >>> for a better experience for the tortured family members? >>> Leah >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/-mwPmOvcu5Q/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/26849228-4cc7-42d0-be7f-c82f0554db70n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/26849228-4cc7-42d0-be7f-c82f0554db70n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e9b1ec9a-cf22-497c-8f35-3e17437ac249n%40googlegroups.com.