We bought a new Santana Targa "Racing" model tandem in I believe 1989, it had a racing geometry fork. The bike handled great, we raced it in several races and the handling was very similar to the Klein that I was racing at the time. We sold that tandem and did not have another Tandem for several years, in the summer of 2010 we bought a used Santana Visa and it had the more relaxed touring geometry, I hated it! To me it felt heavy and cumbersome. In May of 2011 we bought our new Calfee Tetra, oh what a difference, it handles like a sports car in comparison to the old Santana Visa. I much prefer the faster steering. I believe that we are more relaxed and comfortable on the carbon fiber Calfee than we were on the steel Santana. That was one of our comments after our first few rides, we were not as tired on the new bike as we were on the old bike for the same distance.