^ bulgie ebay outed: You probably can fill more about Santana but that is a smoking deal. For that little money? If the captain can straddle, good for most. Swap both stems, bars, saddles per need. The stoker is always perched and doesn't straddle at stop. That build appears mostly stock original. Arai drag brake is good for 100,000 miles. MAFAC Criterium brakeset with dual cable lever.
Both Bill and Jan McCready have done more for bringing back the tandem and at a premium serious product.
Before that, few manufacturers of tandems offered anything but a Main street parade bike. Of course there's a handful of names whom offered the quality and more thought out configured tandems, but Santana certainly deserves credit in dedicated marketing, the return to quality and serious tandem.
It was shared by Jan the above early model with that Ishiwata 022 shaped and size tubing, boom tube, was a financial limb for them as it was a commitment for that proprietary spec. Hired brazers weren't easily let off to just start building frames until really proving their work. Before founding Salsa, Ross Shafer had his time at Santana.
Back to that model on ebay. I think early on was named the Marathon but had to quickly be washed and hushed, never to refer for it might infringe on the Marathon album of Carlos Santana. Also note the font and headtube art. I forget who designed that for them, but it has the right vibe.
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