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Went up to Ilkley today for a spin round on a tandem.
What a laugh. If you get the chance to have a go on one you should jump at the chance. 😀
Thanks to JD Cycles a great shop that offers some great advice.
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For some reason I'm getting no scale there so the bike looks like a parrot bike.
it's got gears though
niche FAIL
I thought this was going to be [url= http://kentsbike.blogspot.com/2009/01/tringle-speed-bicycle.html ]a link to Kent's blog[/url]
nice landing
ssstu
did you get one.
I WANT a tandem. I remember racing a KHS tandem back in the day and loving it. HAve wanted one ever since
/shuffles backwards, quietly, out of this thread.
i bought one a couple of years ago.
it was ace.
but my daughter sat on the back and did not do her fair share.
we argued.
i no longer own a tandem.
Ours will back out again in about a month when the weather's better.
That pic has made me exceptionally jealous.
All that firewood!!!!!!!
ton.
Yes mate we did. Snot finished yet though, still waiting for brakes and need to get some better bars, stem and front seatpost on it.
Captain.
Just get your shit together and buy one. They're so much fun.
aP.
Puff. Get it out now. (so to speak)
matt.
It would take one hell of a fire to dry those logs out enough to burn.
Easy there Stu!
CX bikes tomorrow anyway, all ready to go.
hows does that fit in the back of my hot hatch though??
Stick it on the roof.
Fool. 😉
ssstu, want lend a few quid..
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**** me, big link, big bike...
Ton.
We were looking at a Ventana while we were in the shop.
Very nice but I think we need to learn how to ride this one a bit better before we spend that kind of cash.
Very nice but I think we need to learn how to ride this one a bit better before we spend that kind of cash
You need to learn to ride. Period 🙂
Not sure that's Niche enough for you to ride under the banner "Kngihts of Niche" Please distance yourself from out Autonomous Collective. Thanks
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Hey, we're in the King Of Sweden's niche now mate.
It'll be niche enough when I take the gears off. 😛
It'll be niche enough when I take the gears off.
True, we'll let you back in then 🙂
I resigned from The Nights Of Niche to start my own splinter group.
The Niche Knights On Tandems.
Me and The King Of Sweden are going to ride tandems without stokers.
With Reigns connected to your niche bar ends whilst sat on the rear seat!
I would have thought this was a bit more your style Stu...
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Sam.
You're the second person that's given me a link to Vicious Cyles tandem pics.
After our initial test ride I'd not want to try and steer the ****ing thing off road without a suspension fork.
Once we get to grips with how to ride it the gears are coming off.
ssstu, you NEED sus forks to ride offroad.
it is almost impossible to unweigh the front end to lift over trail obsticals.
even kerbs are hard to do with a light 12 yr old on the back.
ton.
It's got a dirt jump1 fork with bolt through axle on.
The test bike we had a go on had a dirt jump something on with a qr axle. Lets just say the steering was "vague".
Are you sure it was the steering that was vague and not the pilot?
Maybe a bit of both........
BTW you're next in line to get a go on it so we can all point a laugh. 😆
Once we get to grips with how to ride it the gears are coming off.
:¬D Say it how it is... :¬D
Best place for it - on a bonfire.
No need to buy one if you & The Champ have them, we can just use yours 🙂
You're more than welcome to borrow it mate.
Or have a go on either seat.
We MIGHT even ride it on the weekends bothy trip.
Still waiting for the brakes for it though.......
OOOOOKay.......... I'd have a go one day on it down the FOD, got a cracking route in mind including some Northshore and gully jumps 🙂
Well looks like we broke you then ! Welcome to the fold :D.Jen redckons you have stolen her niche so is going back to gears and small wheels just to spite you both. I were right about that fork then.
I think I might need you to give me some tips on how to ride it a bit betterer Champ. 😉
I'd love a proper off-road tandem, but I'd need a proper off-road stoker. My wife doesn't like the bumps...
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No worries mate just dont follow my lines !!!!!!!
Tandems are relationship magnifiers, so just be sure that you get on well to start with. 🙂
And silly things like which foot forward you ride are far more important to getting on than raw power or mad skills. One of the worst tandem stokers I had was Jason McRoy, as we just rode very differently - it's still one of the funniest rides I've ever done though. By contrast, the best stoker ever was Jamie Hibbard - on our first ride out, we were climbing out of the saddle together. You can never tell...