Nexus7,

No, I have not bought it yet. I want to see comments from any previous owners to see if they have encountered any major problems with it.

I would recommend you to try a few more tandems to see if your fiancee would like it better. Every tandem I have tried feel quite different. The other tandem I have tried was a Raleigh Companion. It feels sturdy with decent components but was quite heavy. It did not absorb bumps as well as the Schwinn Sierra. I like its shifter much better than the Schwinn. Its finger-triggered shifter was able to shift much more positively than the grip shift on the Schwinn.