Tandem Build

[itself]

Hi all!

As some of you know, I ride a recumbent bike. My partner rides a Specialized Ruby, and when we ride together, it's hard for us to stay together as I am a stronger rider.

Tandem recumbent bikes are great, but the issue with many of them is that the seat heights are very high at 25" or more. The most important thing with a recumbent bike is to be securely flat footed at stops and starts. With that high a seat height, that is not possible.

Longbikes in Colorado builds both traditional and recumbent tandems: www.longbikes.com So, I am looking at having him build a tandem with a seat height of about 17", and perhaps a monotube frame. Greg is a great guy to chat with, an engineer, and strangley enough, not a bicyclist. He designs some very different recumbents with underseat steering, but his welds look beautiful on his bikes.

So, I am hoping to model the tandem much like my Bacchetta Ti Aero, similar monotube and seat design. Then we can do the Tour de Tucson together, what a blast!