HM & SS Sachs wrote:
>> <>John Thompson wrote:
>>
>> I have an "Atom" freewheel on my tandem (a *REAL* tandem freewheel, with
>> 4 pawls instead of two!)
> There were also Suntour Perfect Tandem FW, generally marked with a
> heavily stamped "T" on the outer cone/removal ring. Back about '74,
> Susan and I had shattered two of the conventional Suntour FW on our
> tandem, and I sent them a letter with the two, and a note suggesting
> that I was puzzled by the failures at the feet of us tourists, and had
> become reluctant to recommend them to my racer friends. Actually, after
> shattering pawls on a couple, I had substituted Regina pawls, slightly
> ground to fit. Next stop: shattered body, pawls intact. As I recall
> things, Suntour sent me two of the tandem models. These still had two
> pawls, but they were much bigger. The other solution was the one
> marketed by Santana for years: out of phase cranks limited the impulse
> to the FW. Once mountain bikes gave us great FW, Santana seems to have
> backed away from his enthusiasm about out-of-phase. Great marketing:
> finding a solution to something that should not have been a problem.
Yes. I'd known SunTour made a tandem freewheel, but I'd never been able to get my hands on one. I have no complaints with the Atom, except perhaps that it is limited to five cogs.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA