Needed a place to put some neat tandem shots!
No timing chain. Can steer from both ends. Must be pretty tough to get started that first time! And my wife complains that she can't see where we're going now! See it in action.
Team Boooger. Martha's Vinyard
Great list of multi-position tandems.
The 1896 Oriten.
Charles Metz built the Oriten, a unique and distinctive
bicycle, in 1896 for the Orient Bicycle Company in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The company took it on tour throughout the country to its many dealers and
bicycle races in a promotional effort to gain public attention for its bikes
with the hope to increase sales. This was the time, near the end of the nineteenth
century, when the public became highly interested and attracted to the bicycle
as a new method of personal transportation. It was common to find bicycle
clubs in communities, such as the Wheelmen in Bloomsburg, and bicycle racing
had become a very popular event.
The Oriten still exists today as part of the Henry Ford Museum collection at Dearborn, Michigan. This unusual bicycle weighing 305 pounds is twenty-three feet long. It has no breaks or gears. The sizes of the ten sprockets are all different, with the smallest in the front and the largest at the rear. One account reported the bike under ideal conditions could attain a speed of forty-five m.p.h. Today, in Waltham, the Watch City Brewing Company produces a Belgian Pale Ale called an Oriten Ten-Seater Ale.
How to carry FOUR tandems on a Honda Accord:
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