Random Tandem

[Chris_W]

Glad you guys enjoyed the video. I looked to see if there was a way to embed YouTube, but didn't see it, so thanks for doing it for me, Ritterview.

I also just found another random tandem on a local (Swiss) auction website:
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The description is short, and simply states that it's a bike for 2 people, ideal for beautiful summer days, and it's in impeccable condition. Opening bid is the equivalent of US$250. The drivetrain looks interesting to say the least, and I'd be worried that if the stoker sat on it before the captain then the whole thing might tip backwards!

[TandemGeek]

I also just found another random tandem on a local (Swiss) auction website:

Those are called 'Donkey-Back' tandems; they've been around for over a hundred years and while they work, they're pretty tough on the stoker's back and posterior.

Coincidentally, I recently blogged about Donkey-Back tandem designs (good grief, I can't believe I'm using the term 'blogged')

http://tandemgeek.wordpress.com/2010...ever-designed/

[Ritterview]

Now this is a hardcore tandem fan.

Gabrielle and I got a couple new tattoos for your gallery.
The photo that the biking tattoo was taken from was sent to us by someone who clicked it at the Midwest Tandem Rally in 2007.

Tattoos by Jack from the Skin Kitchen, Des Moines, Iowa.

Pat & Gabrielle Coughlin
Des Moines, Iowa
TEAM COW ROCKS!

No lateral tube, most likely a Co-Motion.

[TandemGeek]

No lateral tube, most likely a Co-Motion.

Actually, it's a composite Zona and zonatandem attached a photo of it in the 2nd posting to this very thread.

Gabrielle has posted here a few times in the past under the nom deplume "cowtandemstoker"



Photo above from a thread on roller-racing on their Holstein paint-scheme tandem:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ing-and-Racing

Heck, they even have a Team school bus painted like a Holstein cow.

I followed your photos link back to Flickr and found Gabrielle's tattoo'd calf:



I could be wrong, but I'm thinking those are temporary tattoos.

[Ritterview]

I could be wrong, but I'm thinking those are temporary tattoos.

I'd like to think so too, but they credit a tattoo artist, and a specific tattoo parlor.

Tatoos by Jack from the Skin Kitchen, Des Moines, Iowa

Jack's work can be seen here at Skin Kitchen Tattoo, and it looks plenty permanent.

[cowtandemstoker]

Hello Tandem Fans.
Team Cow checking in. Yes, the tats are real. Those are my stoker's calfs and I got the matching tattoo of us on our Zona cow-painted tandem done on my forearm. You might have guessed we love tandeming and have lots of laughs with the whole cow-theme. It's always a great conversation starter when we travel. We just did out first Tour De Palm Springs last month. Not sure what those California folks thought about the crazy mid-west cow team, LOL!.

[Ritterview]

This looks like fun:

Tandem Tall Bike
One of the guys built a tandem tall bike and rode it out to Wheeler Wednesday. I think it is two tandem frames welded together. [not likely]

Geez, their is a veritable outbreak of these things:

[Ritterview]

Nice time trial set up at the Oregon Human Powered Vehicles Human Power Challenge.


Tandem participants in the time trials at the 11th annual Oregon Human Powered Vehicle Challenge at PIR, Saturday. Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian

[Ritterview]

A custom carbon track tandem, by Cunga Bikes, an Irish maker.

[zonatandem]

Great to see the stuff we used to use . . .
Aluminum bidon on the handlebars . . .

[Ritterview]

A guy on a bicycle tour took these photo's in at the The Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum. A little inspiration for the forum's RAAM'sters.

[austex]

[QUOTE=Ritterview;10251807]A Rene Herse tandem. The drive chain extends from the Captain's, not the Stoker's crank. There might have been an advantage to this arrangement, but I can't think of any.

Aha, I see why. The Rene Herse featured one of those new-fangled front derailleurs, which was actuated by a lever. The captain had to reach down to change gears, and the stoker might not have liked it if he had to reach back to her seat tube to do it.



Aside from the lever-action front derailleur, the captain's-drive configuration offers less extreme cross-chain angles, at a cost of "a whole lotta [chain] shakin' goin' on".

[Ritterview]

Came across this while searching for something else.

Tandem for Retirement Home Residents


A resident and a staff car for a ride. The beginning of a fun outing.

STEENOKKERZEEL - Residential and Care Floordam has a 'resident' at. A tandem. Thus the residents one step closer to the outside world.

The residents of the retirement home Floordam will from today on the tandem with family or volunteers can make a getaway in the town. "Last summer some residents during an activity of the Sports Council senior cycle tested. They were wild, "says Rita Uytterhoeven, head of the department therapy. "dreamed of since we are here to have such a bike. And now that dream. Our tandem is an added value for our people. One step in the outside world, a trip to get as closer to nature. The tandem is also useful in physical therapy. " The duo will cost EUR 4,200. Thanks to a sponsor, the purchase possible.

[bgross]

A guy on a bicycle tour took these photo's in at the The Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum. A little inspiration for the forum's RAAM'sters.

Thanks for passing along the photos of the "Tandem of the Gods"!

A couple summers ago I had the privilege of bumping into Pete and his (now-late) wife Joanne. They were waiting for a friend at a stop sign on Camp Pendleton. It was the first time I'd seen them since the '80s -- two of the best gods-in-human-disguise that I've ever known.

[Ritterview]

A neat pic by a very good photographer.

11.9.11

Rolling on a tandem.
I attached the G11 to a manfrotto magicarm and that to a superclamp, which was fixed to the handlebar. The G11 was riding upsidedown. I set it to manual focus and everything else and had the selftimer take 10 pictures.
It was quit dangerous looking (dangerous for the camera) and no fast handlebar movements allowed, but it came out quite ok.

Light: AL

[Ritterview]

This back-to-back recumbent might draw some attention. From Aragoata.



This recumbent is all bent over nuclear, and isn't going to take it lying down.


Against Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Weapons


I am pretty sure the graphics and fairing on this are Photoshopped over an actual bike.

[skibum4ever]

What a fun thread! Thanks to all for posting.

[Ritterview]

I came across this graphic at Flickr, and was amazed that anyone would want to prohibit tandems.



So, I asked about it, and it turns out that tandem has become a political symbol in Russia.

"tandem" is a nickname for Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev in Russia.


Sure enough, tandem bicycles are the symbols for Medvedev and Putin.



Tandem bike rally supports Russia's ruling duo

Supporters of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ride a tandem decorated with their pictures during a rally near the Kremlin in Moscow. Youth from Russia's pro-Kremlin groups mounted tandem bicycles and rode through Moscow in support of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin in the latest political stunt ahead of the 2012 polls.

[Ritterview]

This Peugeot Grand Tourisme tandem has an interesting set on Flickr. The detailed photos appear to show a bike that has not been ridden, and looks as if it came out of a time capsule. Shwar has it for sale.

New-Old-Stock found in a bike shop's basement! This is a circa 1980-1982 bicycle that has been hanging around for 30+ years!

~ For Sale ~

[Ritterview]

I can't figure out what this is about.



Fahrgemeinschaft

in Zeiten hoher Benzinpreise kommt ein Tridem wie gerufen

[KonsiKleine]

I can't figure out what this is about.

Fahrgemeinschaft

in Zeiten hoher Benzinpreise kommt ein Tridem wie gerufen

I would translate it as

"Ride Sharing

In times of rising gas prices, its about time for a Triple"

Germany has a huge debate about gas pricing going on at the moment.

[briwasson]

We'll be bringing our triple to Germany in August for a tour, so that's good timing!

[jimmuller]

Aside from the lever-action front derailleur, the captain's-drive configuration offers less extreme cross-chain angles, at a cost of "a whole lotta [chain] shakin' goin' on".

After a suggestion by someone in BF I thought about rigging our '82 Peugeot that way. It offers several advantages. For one, rear spindle length is less of a problem; long spindles for a TA tandem triple are hard to find. Also the captain can see the chainrings, and the FD cable is shorter. It would have required a supporting pulley somewhere on the keel tube. However the gentleman at Tandems East argued sstrongly against it, said chain suck would be more pronounced. In the end I rigged it conventionally.

[colerad]

hi guys

i'm based in South Africa and tandem parts are not easily available, does any 1 hve a set of good road tandem cranks?

[1987]

http://tandemgeek.wordpress.com/2010...ever-designed/