I'm after an MTB tandem to be used by my wife and I. We would like 29" wheels and do not want a full sus frame as will use it on the road as well for touring. I've been looking at the cannondale mtn 29 and salsa powderkeg. Anybody have experience of either of these, or is there something else similar I've overlooked?
Many thanks
Mark
[url= http://tandems.co.uk/m3b4s77p680/CANNONDALE-Mountain-Bike-Tandem-29er-2016 ]JDT Tandems in Gargrave[/url] have a Cannondale you can take out for a demo. They're good people.
Personally I'd hate to ride an MTB tandem on the road and for touring (do you mean Sustrans trails and the like?) I think an MTB is overkill, unless you're covering seriously rough ground.
Yep the Alpkit one is spot on.
We've done over a 1000 miles on this one now.
This one is alloy, but I understand a Ti one will appear shortly.
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Full suss with lockout shock is possible. We do ride our hard tail on road a bit but it's not a patch on our touring tandem.
Thanks for the feedback so far, I'll look at the alpkit one as well, I'd forgotten that they did one Rich. I'd assumed that a rigid MTB tandem with slick tyres would be ok for leisurely road/sustrans type touring?
Cheers
Mark
That's what we use 🙂