This is an old Kuwahara Shasta that I built up for a tour in Kenya. These old mountain bikes are really ideal if you can't justify buying one of the newer touring bikes where Fatties Fit Fine. This was a special purpose built because I was scheduled to meet the woman I love a few weeks later in Sweden. She brought over an old Cannondale tandem frame and we transferred everying over to it (minus the unsightly threaded to threadless stem, seatpost, headset and bottom bracket) to the tandem and left the faithful Kuwahara frame in Gothenburg. Thus the unsightly long hydraulic brake line between levers and rear calipers. Hopefully somebody found the frame in Gothenburg and made good use of it. I felt a bit bad abandoning but I couldn't figure out a way to do anything else and these frames are hardly worth anything where I live.

The dual brake lever setup was easy to set up and worked surprisingly well. It wasn't really necessary for the tour in Kenya but the hydraulic is really nice for the rear of a tandem.

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