I'm cycling these days on a Terry Dolan Tandem its my friends bike,but he owned a dawes galaxy tandem defore this new new bike and he compairs them like chalk and cheese ,the dawes was heavy and sluggish he hated the barend shifters well his wife done the shifting.
but going up market has to be better and i reckon that Lynkey TI would be one sweet ride.i wouldn't worry to much about it breaking i treat my bikes like gold .
but yeah is it not better to have a lightweigh bike like the TI and state of the are groupset.
Fietsbob i suppose if a fella could afford one, eating in resturants would not be a problem.