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wonder woman incognito
Best, Ben
BTW, Please hold the comments about pant legs getting caught in chain or lack of cycling apparel.........:D

No chance with that chaincase.

I notice a couple things besides no tracks in the sand leading to the bike:
- Rims that look almost like old Weinmann deep section with reverse concave on the nipple side.
- Cable and lever removed for front caliper. Possibly rear too unless it has coaster brake.
- 3 speed shifter taken off handlebar and bundled up near fork crown for photo.

She and Dua are on the top of my list. lol

You can see the wrinkles in her pants from being bunched up before the shot. Can't stage everything...

Grip turned upside down.

Real classic and vintage with Carl Sagan.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...BCder_Opel.JPG

Carl, Wilhelm, Heinrich, Fritz and Ludwig Opel :D

Were those multi tandem actually rideable? Total weight might be at least 400kg, which tires could handle that? Those in the pic look flat.

I wonder how long they had to stay there (with her pants rolled up so as not to get wet) for the waves to wash away all the footprints and wheelprints needed to set up this shot. Then, a quick rolldown of the pants and get the shot before the waves came back.

That looks like the v1 of the SON generator hub, sometimes referred to as the "soup can". I had one for over 20 years and it was still running strong when my bicycle was stolen in Emma Wood State Beach in June of 2023 (yes, still salty :troll:).

Geez, there's nothing like being captious.......Anything else to add?
Best, Ben
Back on TTT....
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Paul M.......

C'mon, you knew that setup was too good for us to let go by.

I know a family of five who rode a quad (modern Santana) across the U.S with the youngest in a trailer. Modern metallurgy and rubber probably helped.

This is clearly a publicity picture, but the OPEL car brand started as a producer of bicycles, and all 5 Opel brothers, sons of the founder Adam Opel (later: von Opel) shown raced at a rather high level, winning dozens of races.Fritz Opel won "Basel-Cleve" in 1894, a 620km race that was one of the first "classics". Tandems and multi-tandems were popular in those early days.

EDIT, I believe it was a Rodriguez and they still make them anyway you want.

There was a 4 or 5 seater Rodriguez at MADE that had been made from a take apart tandem, it was added to as the family grew.

Now it is inherited as the parents passed away and left enough money for the heirs to make each part into a single rider or any combination they see fit.

Amazing, fantastic and heart warming story. ;)

Sorry, no pics, not sure why, can probably be found on the interwebz, somewhere. :twitchy:

I've seen multi tandems with motorcycle wheels, probably up to the task but weighed a ton.

Some do. I stumbled upon this one decades ago parked in Conway SC next to its van. Harley front fork and wheel, rear wheel, and a center wheel.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...8847515ba3.jpg

Largest at the time but since surpassed, at least in length. Don't know if one has been built for more riders. Point is, there are plenty of crazy people out there who like tandems.
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I don't think its that critical, Rodriguez seems to make them however many you want. ;)


https://www.rodbikes.com/images/gallery/gallery.php

Santana has them on their website for up to 4 persons. They are spec'd with 32mm Gatorskins.

In those early days of cycling, bikes and tricycles were an all purpose transport and sometimes were used to carry very heavy loads (much like we still see today in countries like India), and the bike supply industry wasn't stocked as granular as it is today. I guess most tires sold at that time were designed with not just a skinny guys as a rider in mind, but rather to take up to 200kg minimum. Of course, as my grandpa used to tell, they all were pretty bad and punctured often, that was just the way it was and no one expected it to be any other way.

Pretty fit and nice lady :love::rolleyes: and nice bike too:thumb:

and those shoelaces are very vulnerable to the chain and chain wheel

I agree

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Joan Chen

They’re not on a bike, and I don’t know their names, but that’s a pretty sweet LeTour I
spotted on Apple show “Shrinking”…seats a little funky though https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...03131639e.jpeg