Originally Posted by
santiago
This is just an observation: I've browsed through various tandem vendor web pages and you would be hard pressed to find discs on tandems. I would have expected discs to be in use more frequently. That's not to say that they are impossible to find, but it seems that they are not used often. I'm not talking about X-mart bikes either, I'm referring to tandems that cost thousands of dollars.
Anyone have any insight into this?
That IS interesting. I have a friend who is a custom frame builder, and has built a number of tandems. I have not seen him build tandems in the last ten years or so, but in the past, in addition to supplying 40 spoke rear wheels, he was always trying to provide extra braking for the rear wheel. I think I recall a setup where he used a drum brake in addition to cantilevers. The stoker had a lever for the drum.
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