Talbot Frameworks Tandem - Sik Fadez Family Chariot

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Lols, brilliant!
I've already got enough tribal in my life with my current child hauler tribal TREK.

Second shelf down here. Getting mitered next week.

I looked at that and touched my second shelf.

GLWS!

Love the paint!

Get your digital protractor out!
Let the mitering commence!

So much power machinery porn envy

Custom T45 EBB getting the holesaw treatment.

So went to see Matt on Sunday to drop Emma's bike off to have the paint fixed and built up and to see if there had been any tandem progress. Unfortunately, there has been no progress despite me being under the impression that this was taking up the last two build slots in Jan.
Can't fault Matt's communication but after 7 months, had hoped to see something actually coming together. I always knew doing something different would take time but not this much. Hopefully not Time Machine take 2.

So Emma's hydro di2 4-Seasons is built up and rolling and she loves it.
Perhaps not one for the '650b only on small frames' brigade but it rides and handles insanely well according to her.

Expecting to be in receipt of the final drawings for the custom carbon Calfee disc fork by tomorrow then it should be full steam ahead with the Tandem build.

custom carbon Calfee disc fork

It may be them modifying another manufacturers fork to make it Tandem compliant (and modifications for me) but it seems to be a bit smoke and mirrors. It will have internal routing for the dynamo wiring and hydraulic hose, bolt through and mudguard eyelets. But yeah, it's not cheap. About a tenth of the build cost according to my spreadsheet.

spreadsheet

!?!?!

I just pile stuff up in the corner, until it looks like there's enough to build a bike from :-)

That's my normal approach too! I have more drawers and cupboard space dedicated to bike parts than I do clothes. Matt was kind enough to put the spreadsheet together as I was worried about running out of money and not being able to pay him when the time came!

So, the spider that allows the gates sprocket to sit inboard of the stoker cranks (on the drive side) has or is being CNC'd by Steve at Cofa Engineering in Bristol today.
Just the forks to come now from Calfee. Still waiting for Calfee to come up with a drawing. Matt assures me that they are in fact custom not just something else customised.
This is so close I can taste it.... Maybe.....
Here's a pic of the spider:

This may be the most complicated bike ever.

Some of the Da Vinci tandems get pretty complicated. They have an independent coasting feature allowing either rider to stop peddling with drive still maintained. Think Matt would have told me to GTFO if I'd asked for something like it.

Think Matt would have told me to GTFO if I'd asked for something like it.

*Adds to list of things to ask Matt for on next bike *

Voilà

You can get clutched cranks which provide that facility.

#justsayin

My dad and his wife rode a tandem from Malaysia to Hong Kong, in absence of such tech he had a garage in Thailand weld some motorbike footrests on the rear downtube for his wife to put her feet on while he pedalled....

Well this was a fun read.

Although it did get me slightly worried about exploding the 180/160 discs on the work bike, until I realised the 50-60kg we carry around is less than most extra people, the big dummy is 2/3rd of a tandem and there's not really any big hills to go down round here where I don't go flat out then brake hard for lights.

You can get clutched cranks which provide that facility.>

Nothing is immediately coming up when I Google. Any pics of what they look like?

Pegs sound like a great idea for a flagging child too.

Probably this kind of thing...

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/shun-alloy-104-pcd-4-arm-freewheeling-cranks-170-mm-silver-prod23859/

I saw them on a tandem a few years ago, will have a look and see if I can find them.