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05-23-10, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ritterview

I wonder if the small logo on the fork is a clue as to what brand it is?
My goodness, there are only 24 spokes on the deep dish carbon rims. Thankfully, the are on an officially sanctioned race, so it's okay.
No disc brake and carbon braking surface. I guess they don't brake as much on descents.
The chainring is Dura Ace, not so the crank. It looks like a square taper. Its a double, too.
What with the double crank, 11-23 cassette, and the carbon rims, either this team is terrific at ascending/descending, or these tandem races don't appear to include Alpe d'Huez.

Might still be an Edge fork, logo is too small to see clearly.
Most of the tandems, if not all of them in the link you gave had rim brakes. Makes my decision to forgo disks seem OK.
Look like 85mm 24 spoke front and rear probably used two Gigantex rims that would normally be used in the rear of their wheelsets.
Doesn't look like a DA 7400 crank since DA did not have that relief on the backside of the crank arms on the 7400 series (I am looking at my 7401 crank right now).
I am sure they have much better bike handling skills than we have and I would bet they can produce hundreds of watts more power than we can. Climbing might not be much of a problem for them.

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