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Ahh. I’m very sorry to hear that.
So the NDS chainsets weren’t tandem specific?
It can easily work to have a right hand drivetrain, especially with the new wide cassettes, and as a plus you get rid of the front derailleur which apparently is an issue on tandems.
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I guess not. Which is a petty since I just sold my crank re-thread kit, after it had been lying around doing nothing for years.
Getting rid of the FD is a big bonus of the right side drive. Because of the way the frame is constructed I can only use the derailleur that came with the frame, which doens't work very well.
Fatbiker
Not so well actually. By the time we had reached the end of the block one of the front pedals had come loose. A couple of miles later the pedal simply fell off. Turns out I somehow managed to ruin the pedal threads. Probably has something to do with the DS crank being on the right side.
In light of this new problem I have decided to overhaul the entire drivetrain. To keep the number of DS cranks as low as possible, I will change the setup to a right side drive.