Mike45

I have to know...are the bricks for traction or self defense?

Mike45

yep...looks like global warming to me

wobblyoldgeezer

Wow, that last photo looks scary! Seana (the stoker from Santa Cruz) and I just got back from a weekend morning 30 miles in our emerging spring weather - about 30 degrees, nice and early before the heat develops! Actually, this time of year is pretty nice - but the thermometer is really beginning to rise now (here in Bahrain).
Here we are a few weeks ago, starting a charity fundraiser around the new formula one car racing circuit. It gave me a sense of respect for those racers - there's a downhill off-camber right turn that was pretty intense for us at about 40 mph - the car and motorcycle racers take it at about 160!

(Had to crop the image, in response to a message saying original image was too big - but to me it looked les detailed than some of the other lovely shots here!)

Enjoy the spring weather everyone, ride safely

Richard

Bill G

Hi Friends,
This is our Co-Motion Supremo, soon to be for sale due to building up a new custom Co-Motion Robusta with a custom flame paint job. We love to ride and are fortunate enough to live in California where we get our fair amount of GREAT weather to do so!

Bill & Julie G

Bill G

Also here is a pic of the new Robusta frame that will be replacing the Supremo in the other post. It just came out of paint booth, still needs clear coat and Co-Motion lettering applied. The frame is still a few weeks out. I am in the process of rounding up all my components so I can build her up ready to go.

Bill & Julie G

Rbtcha

I co-own a Ventana Full Custom Mountain Tandem that my stoker John an I like to take to Moab,Ut. We will be there again the first week of October,2006. I have attached a link to this post so that everyone can see it. Happy-Happy Trials-Trails!https://forum.bikemag.com/photopost/s...o=4186&cat=501

Trsnrtr

We've only got three rides so far this Spring on our '03 Sovereign but with daylight savings time here, I'm sure our tandem miles will improve.

twilkins9076

We're finally getting some decent riding weather in Missouri, but now we've had to contend with winds. We got our tandem about a month ago, and between wind, rain, and a too busy schedule, only have about 100 miles on it at this point.

hortan

Excuse me R900:
The device on the rear axle left side (second photo), what is that?
Probably stupid question, but then I'm (just) a newbie.

TandemGeek

I'm not R900 but I think I can answer your question (photo below):

The round black & silver object on the left side of the hub is an Arai drum drag brake that has had the cooling fins shaved off for weight savings / aesthetics.


The little doo-hickey on the end of the axle extending beyond the frame and quick release lever is the attachment hardware for a Burley D'Lite Trailer.

Steve Katzman

Here is a pic of Debi and me riding our blue Co-Motion. We ride pretty consistently all through the year here in central Florida. If we wake up for our early morning ride and it is below 40 degrees or raining, we turn over and sleep in. That happens maybe 4 to 6 (weekend ride) days a year. We average about 5000 miles per year on the tandem plus I ride about another 3000 on my singles. We love to travel to tandem rallies and other cycling events using our Honda Odyssey Van. Plus we usually take the tandem on week long vacations to see different vistas than we get to see here in Florida. The S&S couplers make packing the bike much easier.

We've ridden with fellow club members Reg and Michelle, who posted earlier on this thread.

R900

TandemGeek nailed it of course. The drum brake is a shaved drum from Tandem's East, and the "alternative" hitch is for the Burley trailer.

Speaking of which we pulled today, I don't know if it's the weight or the wind resistance, but we really knew it was there. Still a good ride. After the Winter, my wife is getting back up to speed. We have about 4-6 organized rides planned this year with the tandem, montly in Ohio so it should be a great season.

John

George Handy

Here's our new ride!

JMarino

Here's our new CoMo Supremo. Custom size. Carbon fork, cranks, seatposts, steel frame. Interesting top tube huh? Joe

mrfish

Mine is just like R900's red T2000 but with slightly different bars, stems and no rack and drum brake.

Wife is now pregnant and beginning to bulge, so is doing more swimming than bike riding at the moment as getting out of London involves lots of hills. We have only been on a couple of rides recently as I get a bit alarmed when the wife's breathing begins to sound like a steam train. Bike is otherwise going well, and has only needed a bit of chain cleaning, the odd wash and one eccentric adjustment to keep running nicely. I was impressed by this as the bolt securing the eccentric also unsecures the eccentric, so you only need an allen key to adjust it.

Still tempted by lots of upgrades, campag, carbon forks, disk brakes etc... but it's not really worth it if we're not going to ride it much this summer so I probably won't bother. Looking foward to getting a trailer kit next year though for rides round the park!

ElRey

I ride pretty much all winter. MIssed a cople of days to snow, but that's it.

R900

Sorry to revive an old post, but we finally got a shot of us "riding" the bike. Last weekend at the NITE ride in Indy. Great fun! We also did a couple miles on Major Taylor Velodrome at 2 am. The NITE ride was very fun, but the Velodrome was awesome. I aborted my first atempt, but once we got in the flow the high banked corners are something else.

John

mrfish

Cool - an update on our T2000 riding as well:

Current YTD tandem mileage is probably only a couple of hundred. My wife is now 7 months pregnant and very egg-shaped, so the furthest we've been in the last few weeks is 3 laps of the local park, around about 4 or 5kms. It's great that we are only 1/2 mile from the park as it's safe, almost flat and traffic free.

She tells me she needs to pedal like a frog on a matchbox in order to miss the bump, but greatly enjoys the feeling of getting out and speeding along with the wind in her hair. Hopefully the baby will like bikes too, but it's a while before I expect we will be taking her for rides round the park.

jksu2000

after getting a new rear wheel (thanks mel at tandems east!) due to a misshap with our rear wheel (lost it off the roof of our wagon on I5 a couple weeks ago), we brought our "new" tandem (bought from the super cool drpete here on the forum) along on our trip to glacier and the pac nw.

we rode part of the road to the sun up to logan's pass in glacier np....

here's a couple of pics, 1) blurry one of us just some cruising at the camp site with our dog, 2) the burley safely at home.

enjoying tandeming!
john

zronn

We hit our first metric century in October.

cornucopia72

Here is a picture of Rocio and me almost getting to the summit of Kaiser Pass.

mrfish

What's the bar end shifter for?

Pic looks like you're 90 degrees out of phase. What's it like?

Nice looking couple and bike btw.

Bill G

Looks like ( in the pic )they have there rear disk operating of the bar end shifter useing it like a drag brake or drum brake set up. ( sort of looks like an Avid mechanical disk brake) you can see the travel agent for the regular rear brake and the front brake is a duel pivot, so the bar end has to be for the mechanical disk set up.

Take Care,
Bill G

woog

Here's our 1990 Duet just before our first (and so far only) century. Currently it sports a child stoker set up.

cornucopia72

Bill G is right. My idea is to get rid of the V-brake and the bar end shifter and to operate the disk brake with the STI shifter. I am not 100% convinced I want to do that and my wife/stoker is 100% convinced I shouldn't. When the summer is over and we have a little more time, I will switch it over and test it on a mild downhill.

We have been using 90 out of phase for almost a year. We climb steep hills (>10%) almost every week. We can stand together while climbing and to gain speed after a stop sign or sharp turn. At the beginign, for us the key was to give a long try and not giving up after the first (unseteling) tries.