Originally Posted by
Ritterview
Did Santana actually show a tandem at Interbike with Di2? You'd think someone would have taken a picture of it, and I've not seen one.
I'm sure the folks from Recumbent & Tandem Rider Magazine took a photo and will comment but, to be frank, unless a manufacturer breaks new technical ground and uses a tandem to highlight the technology you're just not going to get a lot of interest from the 99.5% of people in the cycling business who aren't really focused on tandems.
Santana received some attention last year only because they created a non-rideable 10-seat tandem out of several cabrio mid-sections. However, the new for '08 rear carbon stays, Vyatec [sp] Exogrid down tubes and mono-head shocks didn't even make a blip on the radar outside of the very small tandem community for the same reason Di2 didn't:
"Yawn, old technology finally makes it's way onto a tandem. Gee, what a surprise."
Even Co-Motion's Gates Belt drive didn't make that big of a splash and the bump that it did receive was probably more of a residual swell from the other late adopters of Gates drives who showed new hardware at the '08 event.
FWIW....