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Originally Posted by verktyg
Back in the mid 70s did a century with a riding buddy on his tandem. We started out with the Cat 1, Cat 2 racer set. Every time I looked over my shoulder we had a gaggle of them sucking our wheel!

They'd drop us on the hills but we'd reel em back in on the down side. We were spinning out 60-13T gears and they'd try to jump on our wheel!

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Chas.
You had a 60t chainring? Was that a normal thing for tandems?
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