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Old 06-24-10, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by jim_pridx
While I'm perhaps describing this bike as having a good share more of flex than it really has, when compared to our old bike, there's certainly a very noticeable difference, for the old bike was an extremely harsh ride in comparison. Also, I'm not really convinced that a little bit of flex is such a bad thing, for it surely does feel as though it gives the bike a more comfortable ride.

Santana's Bill McCready is conducting studies of tandem flex, as discussed on this post, and at more length on TG's blog linked down thread.
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