GEEEEZ What a SNOBISH crowd! Congratulations on the new tandem!! Here's wishing you two the BEST of FUN with it! I guess some folks have their nose too high in the air to see you bought a tandem for fun and NOT for competition or to keep up with the Jones. I bet they forgot or refuse to admit a single speed/coaster brake bike (even tandem)used to take them anywhere they wanted to go just fine and they had fun on it
