Well I said goodbye to this tandem today. Posted it for $100 on CL, and someone drove off with it this morning. Yesterday, I replaced the spoke in the rear wheel and trued it up perfectly. Re-tensioned all the spokes and got it into ship shape. Had two brand new tires sitting on the shelf, and installed them, and when I slid the rear wheel into the dropouts, I was shocked to see that the hub was way smaller than the frame dropout spacing. The dropouts on the frame is 135mm, and the hub over-locknut-dimension is 126mm. No wonder it was stiff and weird when I was first taking it off! It wasnt the correct wheel for the bike to begin with. Stupid mistake on my part, but I've been preoccupied with some things this week, and sometimes stuff just gets by me.
Anyway, I took pics. Posted the bike. Sold it. Interesting side note: The chap I sold it to was a trumpet player and a trumpet collector. He stated that he had over 1500 trumpets in his collection. That's a lot of brass!
