Re: [CR]Tandems an American invention

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Cinelli)

From: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
Subject: Re: [CR]Tandems an American invention
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:32:09 +0000

Jan wrote:
> What I was saying is that performance tandems as we know them today
> made huge advances in the 1930s, due to the technical trials. For
> example, tandems weighing less than 40 lbs. appear to be a 1930s
> invention.

What about early teens Dursley Pedersen tandems? I believe they too were under 40 lbs. Same goes for track tandems and triplets. If you dig deep enough, you will indeed find something that makes 30's tandems unique, but reality would suggest that the period in the 30's was simply a stage in the evolutionary development of the bikes that we now use. Nothing more, nothing less.

--
Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ

> Lou,

>

> Good point... Of course, tandems were invented in the 1930s. Tandems

> are almost as old as the bicycle itself - even hobby horses were

> built as tandems!

>

> What I was saying is that performance tandems as we know them today

> made huge advances in the 1930s, due to the technical trials. For

> example, tandems weighing less than 40 lbs. appear to be a 1930s

> invention.

>

> So while we were perfectly happy on a 1948 tandem for 765 miles, I

> don't think a 1928 tandem would have been quite such a great choice.

> Much less a 1908 one.

> --

> Jan Heine, Seattle

> Editor/Publisher

> Vintage Bicycle Quarterly

> http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/

>

> >In a message dated 1/30/2004 10:48:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> >chriseye@comcast.net writes:

> >I continue to be amazed by the machines that were built as

> >early as the late 1930s.

> >Had to have been a lot earlier than that, although quality is an elusive

> >issue I suspect, but the popular song, "Bicycle Built for Two"

> >certainly was about


> >the turn of the 19th-20th century period. Lou Deeter, not as old as Chuck

> >Schmidt who might have been there, but old enough to have learned the song in

> >elementary school. Orlando FL