We don't mind the hybrid look, just odd posting about a hybrid on a road oriented site.

FWIW, the look of the bike is not bad, it does slice the middle between road and mountain. This site is more road oriented, which is this bikes origins. Getting the wife on paved surfaces has been a new first step. The position and feel for her, riding with flat bars is making the transition easier.

With each year that passes, her allergies and asthma seem to get worse. This was a big factor in me wanting the tandem mtb. As ZonaTandem always says ride twogether, and this makes that happen, with no guilt just pure fun.

The Co-Motion was decided so as to allow us to ride twogether after work in these short daylight months. Where we live there are some parks with miles of paved winding bike paths. With lights we can ride for a couple of hours a few times a week.

By riding less in the woods her breathing doesn't get as fouled up, and we are able to ride more.

With luck, and a puffer, hopefully we will be riding MTB's till we can't. It is something we truly enjoy, be it on our singles or more so on the tandem MTB.

As for this road and paved riding, she is starting to enjoy each ride more, be it for training, to go to dinner or for groceries.

She knows, but won't admit knowing that ultimately we will get a drop bar tandem. We were eyeing the 2009 C'Dale RT2, then this Speedster came along. Granted it was not exactly perfect when we got it, but so far it's been fine and is getting better with each small adjustment.

One other goal we may set, and we are finding out more details, is Team in Training. In the last few months our 16 year old nephew was diagnosed with stage 4 Lukemia. If our participation can help in some way, we will likely focus some attention in that direction also.

So thanks for the kind words about our Hot Rod Hybrid Speedster, and I will keep a close watch on the stem.

Thanks
Riding Twogether
JK&PK