Well, it is about the time of year where the weather turns wet and dreary and thoughts turn to what you can do to upgrade your current ride. We have been a little spoiled with a mild winter and the opportunity to ride outside for much of it.
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On Monday February 4, 2008 the Canadian firm Dorel Industries Ltd. announced it has acquired the Cannondale Bicycle Corporation. Dorel also own Pacific Cycles the parent company for Schwinn, GT and Mongoose. Dorel plans to create a new division within its company to focus on the Independent Bicycle Dealers, the Cannondale Sports Group.
Well it started out as a very small group, 11 riders 10 bikes. I hate the fact that Shannon Rd is right at the very beginning and that it is basically uphill until you get to Pleasant Grove and Billy Howey. It is hard for Nicole and I to keep up with the single bikes on the climb at the beginning without much of a warmup.
Today we had a rough start on the tandem. Shortly after leaving our house we hear what sounded like a gunshot, the rear tire blew off the rim causing the tube to blowout. When we get to the start the first thing to do is change the tube. While putting the wheel back on the brake cable comes off the travel agent. We tell everyone to go and that we would catch up. While enroute to catch up we drop the chain going up to the big ring. What a way to start a ride.
Ever needed a way to get the clutter off the garage floor, want an easy way to store your bicycle out of the way? The Racor bike lift may be your answer.
We have one of these lifts installed in our garage and it comes in very handy to get our Cannondale Tandem off the garage floor.
After everything was said and done, here is a summary of the upgrades/swaps that we did on out Cannondale Road Tandem. Nashbar/Winwood cyclocross fork replaces the Cannondale Tandem Specific Fatty fork. Avid SD-7 linear pull brakes replace the Avid BB-7 mechanical disc brakes. Custom wheels built from Shimano M760 hubs, DT Swiss R1.1 rims and WheelSmith DB spokes replaces OEM 40 hole wheels.
Ok, finally the wheels are built. I managed to get them done Saturday evening for their maiden ride on Sunday. There are a lot of steps that go into building a strong wheel. They can be found all over the Internet so I won’t bore you with the details of the build process.
Now that all the parts are here is it time to actually build the wheels. So the parts list is as follows. DT Swiss R 1.1 double eyelet rims, Shimano 32-hole M760-S mountain bike hubs, Wheelsmith DB14 double-butted spokes (silver) with black spoke nipples and finally some Ritchey snap on rim strips.
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