Tandem has Arrived

iarocu said:

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be
welcomed. This months CTC magazine had an item about a
type of crank shorteners which bolt onto the existing
pedal holes and clamp onto the crank arm. Any good?

About all I can tell you is that the URL published in Cycle
is out of date, you want
<URL:http://www.highpath.aaugonline.net/>. And the crank
shorteners haven't yet made it onto the website.

I'm quite tempted to get some to allow me to try out
different crank lengths, if they're significantly cheaper
than new cranks. My only worry is that they look as though
they would significantly increase the Q-factor.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my
reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/> "He who
dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Reply to iarocu

Quoted message said:

The only flaw in a pretty good spec for the cash is that
both front and rear cranks are 170mm. But then I believe
many manufacturers don't bother varying crank length with
frame size which seems like a common sense thing to do.

The latest edition of CTC's Cycle magazine mentions Chris
Bell's crank shorteners (by coincidence, I'd been thinking
about tracking a pair down to try on the bent). The link
they give appears to be wrong; this one -

highpath.aaugonline.netindex.htmlOpen ↗

appears to be right. They might be worth a try, and if
you do and don't like them, you can always pass them on
to me! :-)

--
Mark, UK. We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him
squeak, We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

Reply to Danny Colyer

Oops I not only didn't read the original post correctly, but
I posted before reading yours - I was happily windowshopping
those hand- polished customised chainrings...

--
Mark, UK. We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him
squeak, We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

iarocu said:

Yes I have now got my Dawes Discovery Twin 2003 model ex
demo £650.

Enjoy it. I'm sure you will :-)

Quoted message said:

Initial impressions from using the bike locally are it
seems to get given roadspace from car drivers. I don't
know whether it was from the novelty value of it being
a tandem or whether its the fact the stoker was a
child that resulted in this.

I have found the same on anything other than a standard
bike. IMO I don't think its having a child on board, rather
more the fact that you actually get noticed because you are
something different. I'm not sure many drivers really
consciously register ordinary bikes at all :-(

Quoted message said:

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be
welcomed. This months CTC magazine had an item about a
type of crank shorteners which bolt onto the existing
pedal holes and clamp onto the crank arm. Any good?

If possible go for cranks that already come in shorter
lengths, or possibly have have new pedal threads cut higher
up an existing crank. Add on shorteners can increase the
width between the feet, causing some quite severe splaying
of the legs and some nasty forces on the joints. This is
even more so with children with their shorter legs. I'd
avoid such shorteners.

John B

In article <[email hidden]>, iarocu

Quoted message said:

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be welcomed.
This months CTC magazine had an item about a type of crank
shorteners which bolt onto the existing pedal holes and
clamp onto the crank arm. Any good?

In the good old days we would just have bolted wooden
platforms onto the pedals :-)

--
A T (Sandy) Morton on the Bicycle Island In the Global
Village millport.netmillport.netOpen ↗

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be
welcomed. This

Quoted message said:

months CTC magazine had an item about a type of crank
shorteners which bolt onto the existing pedal holes and
clamp onto the crank arm. Any good?

Try looking at the tandem club website.

tandem-club.org.uktandem-club.org.ukOpen ↗

The discussion board is very useful and you dont have to be
a member to post.

I have seen kiddy cranks on ebay although not very often.

--
replace deadspam with btinternet to reply Tom Anderson
Leighton Buzzard England

Sandy Morton said:

In article
<[email hidden]>, iarocu

Quoted message said:

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be
welcomed. This months CTC magazine had an item about a
type of crank shorteners which bolt onto the existing
pedal holes and clamp onto the crank arm. Any good?

In the good old days we would just have bolted wooden
platforms onto the pedals :-)

I did that on the kiddiecranks on our tandem trike, but only
to bring the feet and saddle closer when youngster was
really titchy. It doesn't have any effect on the turning
circle of the feet.

John B

iarocu said:

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be
welcomed. This months CTC magazine had an item about a
type of crank shorteners which bolt onto the existing
pedal holes and clamp onto the crank arm. Any good?

We used them when the girls were smaller. Worked well and
have three pedal holes so they can grow with the child. I
have a couple of pairs of Swallow Tandem ones left over from
those days if you're interested.

Tony

"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

iarocu said:

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be
welcomed. This months CTC magazine had an item about
a type of crank shorteners which bolt onto the
existing pedal holes and clamp onto the crank arm.
Any good?

We used them when the girls were smaller. Worked well and
have three pedal holes so they can grow with the child. I
have a couple of pairs of Swallow Tandem ones left over
from those days if you're interested.

I would be interested. Could you e-mail me with
details. Iain

iarocu said:

Any comments regarding crank shorteners would be
welcomed. This months CTC magazine had an item about a
type of crank shorteners which bolt onto the existing
pedal holes and clamp onto the crank arm. Any good?

I e-mailed Highpath about them and was extremely impressed
by the speed of the reply. I sent my e-mail at 22:20 on
Saturday and the reply appears to have been sent less than 3
hours later.

Anyway, the crank shorteners are provisionally priced at 60
quid a pair. They also offer a crank shortening service for
15 quid each (or 20 for a single crank).

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my
reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/> "He who
dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine