Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
I've been tandem shopping. There are a ton of decent quality fillet-brazed Burleys and Santanas out there dying on the vine because they were built with 27-inch wheels and the "opposition" group of Suntour/Sugino/Diacompe, and in order to be brought up to code they need a new 700c tandem wheelset, cassette, derailleurs, and shifters, in addition to refresh with cables and wrap and seats, making the price for the project more or less the same as buying a much newer welded aluminum Cannondale or Trek that already has all that.
And I would love it it I could come across one of those Burleys or Santanas ones in our size for a good price. I love a good project, spreading the cost out over months of a build is good, but cost shipping is often a limiting factor (as is just finding one made for both captain and stoker who are both 6' or over). Maybe the market will drop enough on them that the costs will become doable.
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Bikes: 1996 Eddy Merckx Titanium EX, 1989/90 Colnago Super(issimo?) Piu(?), 1990 Concorde Aquila(hit by car while riding), others in build queue "when I get the time"