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Video: Eurobike faves - Specialized tandem

+ spurious bonus tandeming factoid

Most people associate tandems with touring, but you can go fast on a tandem as anyone who's ever ridden one can tell you - just imagine how fast you can go on this one from Specialized, with Fabian Cancellara on the back stoking. Quite fast.

The bloke at Specialized who designed their S-Works carbon tandem actually did ride it with Spartacus on the back… we'd like to think they turned up at their local 10 on it.

Cool story aside this is just a wonderful piece of technology all aero tube profiles and check out the shaft drive too. What I really like about this bike is Specialized have given the full R&D performance technology treatment to a type of bike that track specials aside doesn't usually get it, and they've come up with solutions that are particular to this type of bike (that shaft drive) rather than just building something that is essentially two jazzed up road bikes stuck together. 

We dread to think what this bad lad might cost, but if we had the storage (and a big hill of cash) there'd certainly be room for it in our collection.

road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.

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kitkat | 13 years ago
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absolute quality  4

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Fish_n_Chips | 13 years ago
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Brilliant!

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Joe Dunckley | 13 years ago
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*snigger*

Human Centivelocipede, anyone?

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