p4nh4ndle

There's probably a thread on this somewhere deep in the archives (or not so deep maybe) but I'm going to hazard getting shouted down or otherwise e-reprimanded and ask away:

has anyone here tried building a tandem after John Allen's (or for that matter the late great Sheldon Brown's) instructions on joining two bikes together? i'd like to hear success/horror/war stories; whatever you got.

matt p.

sss

Like this?

p4nh4ndle

aha! you sir (or madame, apologies if necessary) are more better at the interwebz than i

Alan Edwards

Please Please Please put up pictures and tell us how it goes. I am putting together all the stuff to build my own frame, lugged. I've read the Sheldon story many times and i'm hooked.

p4nh4ndle

Thanks for the encouragement. I think I'm going to follow the John Allen process since my anticipated stoker and I are pretty close in size. Althought that method requires a little more work I think the result will be a little more useful. I also have ready access to 4130 tubing (there's an aircraft/motorsports metals supplier nearby) so I may go for a whole new lateral or boom tube if the salvaged bike process seems to present too many headaches.
I'm hunting down a suitable front donor frame at the moment, but this looks like a project that's actually going to go somewhere. I'll try to document the process and post pictures.

sss

Here's another.

Alan Edwards

SSS You are golden, that is just more encouragement. The tandem is my second project.