I misread the front/rear thing. I thought he meant the shifters, not the levers on the shifters. Custom titanium MTB tandems tend to lighten the wallet quite a bit. But when we built it, we were importing a lot of gear, so all it really did was cut into my margins. And I saved a lot on shipping by having the wheels and fork built in the states, and flying the family over there for a holiday to pick them and some other parts up. Like that logic? $20k for a holiday, but we probably saved $500 on shipping costs.