This reposted from the other Croco thread...
A rare Canadian Le Croco
Hi all, I knew Sandy Tvdik who was the last person building the Croco frames here in Montreal. Interesting character, have not seen him in many many years.
I had two frames built by him in the early 90’s . I still have the road frame that I ride regularly and sadly (sniff), the blue one pictured below got away from me in the mid 90’s, would do almost anything to have it back!
ONE OF ONE
Pictured below is the LeCroco double male 58cm marathon lateral tandem that Sandy Tvrdik built for for my wife and I . Reynolds 531 tandem tube set, 48 spoke wheels, 32mm HP tires, rear drum and short reach calipers. Patterned after a full scale drawing Sandy had of a Czech track tandem, it had short wheelbase, and a short rear top tube that had my 5'10" wife tightly tucked in the 'draft' (I'm 6'2"). Note the rearward facing triathlon seat post common in the 90's installed in an effort to keep my stoker happy.
With a 56T big chainring, it was much like any tandem, it had you superfast with the wind ( high gearing and double horsepower) , pretty comfortable upwind (twice the horsepower and single frontal area) and really suffering in any cross-upwind where frontal area to the wind really hurts you.
Both are from the last frames built in the Pointe St Charles Le Croco workshop on St Patrick in Montreal before he relocated to Toronto.
Mark
Montreal
