Originally Posted by TandemGeek

Don't be so sure. Debbie was very attached to our first road tandem but became even more attached to the next one which introduced her to a proper fit and, well, she promptly fell in love all over again. She was really apprehensive about the newest road tandem because, well, there was just no way it could be as comfortable for her as our nearly 10-year old beloved road tandem: yeah, that lasted about 5 miles. Love = comfort and confidence-inspiring handling.

The same thing happened when I moved her from the '98 C'dale MT3000 to our first Ventana: no way are we selling that tandem until I try this full-suspension thing. First ride... she was hooked and no trip to the Chiropractor after the ride: Love = comfort and confidence-inspiring handling.



Relative to the Wound-Up and any other fork options other than a 55mm Santana-spec fork, please ask Steve, Bill or whoever you talk to at Santana how that 90's model frame's handling would be affected by changing the rake to something like a 45mm Wound-Up. Santana like Co-Motion, optimizes their frames to work with their respective steering geometries. You can really mess up the 'balance' that builders work so hard to achieve by changing something as significant as the fork's rake.