Posting today (6-26-06) on Tandem@Hobbes, tandem digest 5751, post # 17.
http://photos.yahoo.com/gcorn2=20
Surprisingly, both riders survived without life threatening injuries!

Link works but I get message that gcom has not enabled public albums.

This works: http://tinyurl.com/lvgc5

Can you post the contents of the original message detailing the incident?

To say that bike is destroyed is an huge understatement.

Wow

http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=tandem.10607.0637.eml



>From Grace McCabe:

"At least Mike and I made it through the hottest Co-Motion ever
without fainting or throwing up! We won the master's division because
the guy/guy team from Hutch's that was leading crashed on the Wolf
Creek descent. The tandem was destroyed (I've never seen a tandem
that broken up). Apparently, the rear tire blew on a corner, so the
bike went down and the whole works, riders included, slid across hot
pavement into a guardrail. The bike hit the guardrail and post and was
pretty much disintegrated. The stoker went under the guardrail and hit
his head, getting a big cut on the forehead. Both riders had lots of
road rash. The rear wheel was about half intact when I saw it later at
the finish area. All of the tubes under the captain were broken or
bent severely. Mike said there's no way they could fix it in the
condition it was in, so we figure it was totaled. That's a heck of a
price for a race entry."


From: Chris Clemow

"I (Chris) am okay - i.e, I didn't have to spend the night in the
hospital. I made it through with road rash, bruising and a cracked
rib. Doug is okay and is back home now - a lot of stitches, road rash
and bruising. He will likely be away from work for several days. Doug
and I extend a major "THANK YOU" to all those who stopped and provided
assistance. OBRA did a fantastic job, especially recognizing the
communication difficulties in a remote area. Co-Motion even said they
could fix the bike. Well... maybe those weren't exactly the words.
Also, Doug says we all got across the finish line (albeit in different
pieces) and he wants our prize."

It should be noted that the Wolf Creek hill is on the route used by
the "A" and "B" riders, not the "C" riders.

Mark, thanx for putting up originaly posting from T@H.
Seems no one can determine what brand of frame this is. The name "luna" gets mentioned, but Luna Bicycles custom builds women-specific frames in N.M. Seems there was/is a German outfit that used the name Luna on tandems, but can't get info on that either. The only other Luna reference is Craig Calfee's dog, Luna, holding a Luna single c/f frame in his mouth.
Looks this may be a 'steel' frame; carbon and heat-treated alu are not likely to 'fold' up like that.
We've broken tandem frames and a fork, but nothing as drastic as this incident.
Amazingly, and thankfully, no one was critically injured.

Pedal on TWOgether!
Rudy and Kay/zonatandem

from the pics and crash description looks like the team and bike where down and sliding at a high rate of speed, hit the wooden post mid-boom tube while both riders where still somewhat attached to the bike. Boom and lateral folded up around the post, stoker top tube broke loose at the weld. Captain's frame, fork and rear triangle are untouched....

from the pics and crash description looks like the team and bike where down and sliding at a high rate of speed, hit the wooden post mid-boom tube while both riders where still somewhat attached to the bike. Boom and lateral folded up around the post, stoker top tube broke loose at the weld. Captain's frame, fork and rear triangle are untouched....

Yup.. that's the image that the photos and description of the low side crash conjure up.

What I find interesting is the wheels they were using. Those are some fairly old MAVIC CXP-30s, about the same vintage of the ones that came on my '98 Erickson and that I retired to "back-up use only" status a few years ago. In fact, they "look like" the bronze-colored 36h CXP-30's that Cannondale used as an OEM rim on some of their single bikes. Perhaps MAVIC offered them as an after market rim.

As for the frame, it will be interesting to hear who did the original fabrication just to clear up the name issue. I omitted the name thrown out in the quoted post only because I didn't want someone from BikeForums who was unfamiliar with tandems confusing the name used with another builder's line of carbon single bikes.

looks to me like a bike on the rack going into the garage pic.