Some observations not in any particular order:

• There are some frequent posters here that have bought $10,000 plus carbon tandems and love them.

• I don’t recall anyone posting here that didn’t like their $10,000+ carbon tandem.

• I think that everyone posting here that has bought a new major brand tandem costing $5,000 or more, of any type, steel, aluminum, titanium,
magnesium, or carbon has posted that they were happy with it. I don’t think anyone posted that they made a mistake.

• Top of the line Titanium, Magnesium or carbon tandems are really nice bikes.

• A $5,000 tandem from a major manufacturer is a quality bike.

• If you get dropped on a $5,000 tandem I would guess its not the bike’s fault. I know because we are experts at getting dropped.

• I would hope that a $10,000 tandem would be nicer than a $5,000 tandem. Hopefully twice as nice.

• I would rather spend $10,000 on a tandem than a boat. Then again we ride a tandem 5-6 days a week.

• I ride a steel tandem and do not want a carbon one even though I could write that fat check. Actually we have two steel tandems, and three singles which all together cost us as much as a one carbon tandem without all the bells and whistles.

• Some people can afford really nice things.

• Some people buy more really nice things than they can afford.

• Some people can’t afford really nice things but have just as much fun anyway.

• I think the trick is not to have enough money to buy all the nice things but rather to know how many nice things you can afford to buy and how to have fun with them.

Good luck. Wayne