You are hereForums / By Discipline / Mountain (off road) / MTB Gear / Tandem MTB
Tandem MTB
Hi All
Sorry about joining just to ask questions, but thats how you learn right!
I was put onto you guys as having a few Tandem bikes around the club...
The missus and I went for a ride on a tandem bike over the weekend and loved it 
(she is visually impared and has never rode a bike before)
We put about 100kms on the bike and did a bit of gravel and single track on the way, and really enjoyed that part!
We were on a Canondale with rigid forks and 26x2" road tyres and apart from still getting used to it, it seemed to go alright
Now we are hooked and need to buy a bike, so im looking for any info that anyone can give us on tandem bikes!
We were thinking of something like this one http://www.mtbtandems.com/fd_tandem_models.html
Basically wanting to hear from anyone who has ridden one offroad and any tips they can give us about what to buy!
Thanks in advance
- Login to post comments
- Bookmark & share
Hi John.
There is only one Tandem due in BMORC, Stephen and I (he is also visually impaired). I have done some research on Tandem 29ers and 26ers. The Fandango ones are your best bet for a good quality dually or HT. Flick them an email for costing. Delivery to Oz was around the $650 mark. You could also look at the following links.
http://www.bikeexchange.com.au/bikes/list?search...
http://www.pegasustandems.com.au/
http://mscbikes.com.au/zion-tandem
Good luck, let us know how you get on.
Thanks Muninjitsu
We have been looking at the fandango HT (just waiting on a reply to our email) seems to be the best bet at this stage
Ive had a chat to the guy at pegasustandems and they are really road orientated, they will custom build a brumby to ad a front shock, but not really designed for it
I havent seen the msc bikes zion.. that looks interesting and i will send them an email too to see what they are about
Thanks for the help and ill let you guys know how we go!
I meet two other local guys riding a blue Apollo tandem mtb bike on the Oaks in April last year.
http://www.apollobikes.com/bikes12/tandem/syncro-26
Their bike is different to the one on the Apollo web site as it has a suspension fork and mtb tyres etc. Maybe they modified it themselves.