Time Trial Tandem

Porkyboy

Hi

Here's the question, if one wishes to buy a racing tandem suitable for TT'ing over both short and long distances where do you start looking? Who produces these things these days?

Thanks,

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imposter2.0

Dolan is a good place to start - http://www.dolan-bikes.com/tandem.html

Trek and Cannondale also have racing tandems in their lineups - probably lots of others too.

Grill

Here's the one Hutch and Yates used:

marcusjb

^ that is a machine! Look at that chainring! Non crossover timing chain as well - unusual.

Co-Motion make some very high performance machines - the Macchiato etc.

Our next tandem (not for racing) will be a Co-Motion - they are beautiful machines. Just cost rather a lot.

Grill

They way Hutch told it he was bricking it as they were doing 70+mph downhill towards a roundabout. Bigger stones than me, that's for sure.

marcusjb

Must be terrifying on a time trial tandem - your head resting on the captain's arse/lower back, so no visibility.

Not for me either thanks!

MichaelW

There are some nifty carbon fibre tandems around.
http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/arti ... ity-36334/

marcusjb

Imposter wrote:

Dolan is a good place to start - http://www.dolan-bikes.com/tandem.html

Trek and Cannondale also have racing tandems in their lineups - probably lots of others too.

Cannondale stopped making tandems a couple of years ago - despite them being well-regarded. However, they are back making them for 2014 apparently. Not sure what the model line-up will be like.

Trek also seem to have stopped making tandems.

It's such a niche market that it is not of that much interest to the big manufacturers. There are many parts that are unique to tandems making it hard to source those cost-effectively (compared to the parts they are buying for solo bikes in the hundreds of thousands).

Pokerface

A teammate of mine uses a Paketa - sourced from the US. http://paketabike.com/index.cfm?page=paketa_v2_tandem

Rates it highly. Also seen some tasty Calfee tandems at races although they probably cost a pretty penny. Dolan and Co-Motion are your standard options in the UK.

mroli

My mate has a decent old fashioned steel frame with modern components on it (groupset/trispoke etc). Goes like brown stuff off of brown stuff on it.... And it looks beautiful

LegendLust

Bob Jackson in Leeds specialise in building racing tandems