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07-23-12 | 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Italuminium

If you fit it, your projected stoker fits it and the price is right (i.e. within your spending limit and not the full market price for such a beauty) you can have a lot worse machines to try if tandeming is anything for you (and the stoker).

This is where I'm at, but it just can't possibly fit me or my stoker. But it is a whale of a lot cheaper than the Meridian bare frame my bud is trying to sell me! And I can't imagine Jack Taylor having made a low-quality frame.

Re flex, all you know is that it is smaller-diameter tubing. It could be Reynolds Super Tourist, Columbus SP, or a mix of them with some straight 531.

For this price, I've seen cheap French gaspipe tandems. This is FAR better than that. Somebody tall, buy it!

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