Need advice for custom tandem

[malkin]

...who knew how expensive a tandem could be! Makes other bikes seem quite inexpensive!

When people ask, our stock answer is "We don't own a boat."

Another way to think of the expense is to compare it to other recreational vehicles.

[Tokie]

When we toured with our (ill-fitting)tandem in Alaska people in towns would pull up alongside in their cars & remark how fun our bike looked & how much did it cost? This was 1989. When we replied $1500.0, the response was inevitably quite disappointed. So I changed my response to $500.00. This answer made people very happy(they were in trucks/cars, & I doubt they were looking at the brand of the bike). We got really soaked riding into Talkeetna & passed by fishtailing oil tankers,busses & RVs gave us a few grey hairs! Tokie

[zoom-zoom]

When people ask, our stock answer is "We don't own a boat."

Another way to think of the expense is to compare it to other recreational vehicles.

Exactly. And ours don't require gas or docking fees.

[Tokie]

And you get healthy riding your tandem, whereas on a boat...isn't alot of it about drinking beer? (recent bumper sticker "give a dog a fish and he'll have dinner, teach a dog how to fish, and he'll spend all day on the boat drinking beer" or something like that) tokie