Originally Posted by
Knubby
We have two older road tandems and only one has the Arai drum brake. We are slow hill decenters and wish our other bike had a drum brake too. Sounds like adding an drum brake is cost prohibitive. In our case, we're better off buying a new drum/disc equipped tandem instead of modifying the old one.
Nope. Adding an Arai drum isn't a big deal at all. The key is if you have a tandem rear hub that's threaded on the non-drive side to accept the drum. Everything else just bolts on.
Disc brakes are different.