Originally Posted by
TandemGeek
You know, I find most bike shops are always more than willing and able to point out all kinds of possible disadvantages of tandems, ICS or not. In fact, most bike shops that don't know much about tandems also find working on all tandems to be a PIA.
I agree. Up here in NYC most of the LBSs probably view tandem bikes to be an eccentric oddity, much like unicycles. Up here most don't even have an older tandem hung up on display. I understand that the majority of their business income is derived from spandex-weenies with discriminating tastes and ridiculous amounts of disposable income so they have to cater to what keeps them in business.
I was in an LBS this weekend and no kidding this one customer asks them if he needs to bring in his bike (again) to put on a replacement seat he just bought. He must have been a really good customer because they told him very carefully that he could certainly bring it in if he wished to...or else he could do it himself if he had a metric allen wrench...
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