Serendipper
09-18-06, 11:31 PM
How did you stop the bike on your solo tandem ride?:eek: It must have been impossible to reach the brakes!:)
http://www.sheldonbrown.org/images/Solotand-T1.JPEG
http://www.sheldonbrown.org/images/Solotand-T1.JPEG
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BlankCrows
09-18-06, 11:33 PM
Wow, actually there was a need for suicide brake levers. They just put them on the wrong type of bikes!
tomacropod
09-19-06, 06:14 AM
control freaks huh? :)
- Joel
- Joel
Bikedued
09-19-06, 07:29 AM
Brakes, we don't need no steenking brakes, lol.,,,,BD
Sheldon Brown
09-19-06, 08:48 AM
How did you stop the bike on your solo tandem ride?:eek: It must have been impossible to reach the brakes!:)
This was just a little photo-op ride in a parking lot, I was never in the habit of riding this way. It was a long time ago, but stopping wouldn't have been difficult 'cause the rear brake uses an open cable, so all I had to do was yank on the cable where it ran along the top tubes.
Sheldon "Not As Crazy As I Look" Brown
This was just a little photo-op ride in a parking lot, I was never in the habit of riding this way. It was a long time ago, but stopping wouldn't have been difficult 'cause the rear brake uses an open cable, so all I had to do was yank on the cable where it ran along the top tubes.
Sheldon "Not As Crazy As I Look" Brown
cudak888
09-19-06, 09:19 AM
Talk about aero positioning...
P.S.: I dare say that if the front saddle was brought down, Sheldon could grasped the brakes in the drops.
-Kurt
P.S.: I dare say that if the front saddle was brought down, Sheldon could grasped the brakes in the drops.
-Kurt
lotek
09-19-06, 09:39 AM
Talk about aero positioning...
P.S.: I dare say that if the front saddle was brought down, Sheldon could grasped the brakes in the drops.
-Kurt
yeah but then he would have lost the chin rest. . .
P.S.: I dare say that if the front saddle was brought down, Sheldon could grasped the brakes in the drops.
-Kurt
yeah but then he would have lost the chin rest. . .
John E
09-19-06, 05:27 PM
... stopping wouldn't have been difficult 'cause the rear brake uses an open cable, so all I had to do was yank on the cable where it ran along the top tubes. ... I didn't think you used the rear brake. :)
Actually, I sometimes use the cable yank trick on the UO-8 when waiting at red lights; makes a handly parking brake.
Actually, I sometimes use the cable yank trick on the UO-8 when waiting at red lights; makes a handly parking brake.