Would you cut your frame in half....

[barry2017]

Believe it or not, they're so well made they actually make the frame stronger.

 

[hamster]

They are fine - I've ridden tandems with them. They are phenomenally well engineered. However, you do have to be careful that cack-handed baggage people don't bend the exposed frame tubes...

Don't knock it until you have tried it!

 

[MikeD]

I wonder if the person who owns that Kona has tried to sell it.

The person who owned that Kona was the bloke selling the S&S couplings at the time. IIRC the bike showed up at MBUK in an ironically full-sized bike box ;-)

 

[dyna-ti]

Believe it or not, they're so well made they actually make the frame stronger.

And improves a kona no end

TV last night,showing some bloke cycling down the Americas on a tandem,picking up co-pilots as he goes
Mostly female :?
He had a tandem that used those fittings,and they lasted the journey,though the rest of the bike didnt.

 

[Xesh]

They also do a Ti version! :shock:

 

[one-eyed_jim]

Joel Metz, bike messenger extraordinaire, has a custom-built Sycip messenger bike with S&S couplers and countless tens of thousands of miles, working and touring. If they'll handle that, they'll handle anything. He reckons the saving in oversized baggage charges would cover the installation cost in just a few flights.

http://www.sandsmachine.com/a_syc_r1.htm

Bilenky or Co-Motion - one of the big US tandem brands anyway - made a tandem that converts to a triplet (perhaps even a quad) by adding S&S-coupled sections.

http://www.sandsmachine.com/

 

[Mattythemod]

Think Bob Jackson quotes 400 quid just to fit and buy them !!!!!!!

 

[Andy R]

They are fine - I've ridden tandems with them. They are phenomenally well engineered. However, you do have to be careful that cack-handed baggage people don't bend the exposed frame tubes...

Don't knock it until you have tried it!

It would be the front triangle that would be vulnerable, of course.
Still, it wouldn't be difficult to make a clamp-on brace, to be fitted when packing.

I don't understand all the scepticism either - it's tried and tested and they obviously work well.
Still, it's a good excuse to rip the p*ss out of something I suppose :roll:

 

[Easy_Rider]

They are fine - I've ridden tandems with them. They are phenomenally well engineered. However, you do have to be careful that cack-handed baggage people don't bend the exposed frame tubes...

Don't knock it until you have tried it!

It would be the front triangle that would be vulnerable, of course.
Still, it wouldn't be difficult to make a clamp-on brace, to be fitted when packing.

I don't understand all the scepticism either - it's tried and tested and they obviously work well.
Still, it's a good excuse to rip the p*ss out of something I suppose :roll:

No scepticism, i just saw the add in a 1997 issue of MBUK and posted it here, not see it before, new nothing about it and didn't know it's been in use all these years either.

 

[Andy R]

No scepticism, i just saw the add in a 1997 issue of MBUK and posted it here, not see it before, new nothing about it and didn't know it's been in use all these years either.

I apologise - I really wasn't aiming my comment at your original post.

Me and my big mouth

I think I should ban myself.....