Date:         Mon, 14 May 2007 07:10:59 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Racks for Tandem Bikes?
In-Reply-To:  <521120.95352.qm@web51401.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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>Can't help but wonder if this was a plain silly
>purchase.

Having spent a lot of years as a cyclist and earning a
living in various branches of the bicycle business, I
will be the first to say that a bicycle when you are
not actually riding it is one of the most unwieldy of
devices.  Difficult to maneuver, manipulate and store.

When you are riding, however, is when you get the
payoff.  So figure out a way to take the tandem and
make sure you and the missus ride it.  It'll be fun.
If you think your camper is a conversation starter,
wait until you ride a tandem.

What exactly did you buy?  I had an old 5-speed
Schwinn tandem and after that a slightly better old
Gitane, but never a good modern bike.

Stephen


--- Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> You could do what I plan to do on my van; a single
> gutter-mount crossbar at the rear of the roof
> modified
> so it clears the raised poptop and the raised hatch.
> You then use a single fork-mount bike holder and let
> the bike hang vertically on the back of the van with
> a
> bungee holding the rear of the bike to bumper or tow
> hook.
>
> Stephen
>
> --- Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Nah, I've never owned or considered getting a
> > tandem, so the issue of
> > hauling one has never come up. It's just possible
> > that I may have asked
> > about towing a small car with a Vanagon, or maybe
> > towing the Vanagon
> > behind a larger vehicle, towing a motor scooter
> > behind the van, so
> > trailers may have been discussed at that time.
> It's
> > possible. But tandem
> > bikes are an altogether different matter -- I know
> I
> > haven't beaten this
> > horse to death.
> >
> > The Draftmaster that Stephen pointed out looks
> like
> > a fine rack. But at
> > $800, it's four times the cost of this used tandem
> > bike I just got. Gary
> > Lee's stuff isn't cheap, either. Can't help but
> > wonder if this was a
> > plain silly purchase.
> >
> > --
> > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> > 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical
> > Banana")
> > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San
> Juan
> > Capistrano
> > KG6RCR
> >
> >
> >
> > Greg Potts typed:
> > > Hi Mike,
> > >
> > > Haven't we been through this already??You need a
> > trailer.
> > >
> > > Happy Trails,
> > >
> > > Greg Potts
> > > 1973/74/77/79 Westfakia "Bob The Tomato
> > > www.pottsfamily.ca
> > > www.busesofthecorn.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12-May-07, at 2:22 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:
> > >
> > >> I just found a good deal on a tandem bike at a
> > yard sale. I hope to hang
> > >> it on the back of Mellow Yellow before our next
> > camping trip and
> > >> surprise Mrs Squirrel. I'm looking for a rear
> > hatch tandem bike rack --
> > >> not a roof rack, I'm too short to be hauling
> > stuff up there, and tandems
> > >> are very heavy. Mrs Squirrel is close to
> useless
> > when it comes to
> > >> hoisting heavy items.
> > >>
> > >> Does anyone have any recommendations for a good
> > rack? I saw Gary Lee's
> > >> stuff at
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/4bike/tandem/tandem.htm
> > >>
> > >> Or maybe someone has a used one for sale, and
> > could figure out how to
> > >> ship it to Zip code 92008?
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> > >> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> > >> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical
> > Banana")
> > >> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San
> > Juan Capistrano
> > >> KG6RCR
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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