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Motivating the Stoker

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Anne | 6 comments

We’ve been busy this spring getting ready for our Pacific Coast bike tour in July (even though we’d love to do the whole thing, we only have time for Seattle to SFO). We’re buying light weight camping gear, planning our route, getting the bikes set up and doing lots of tandem riding on the weekends. The whole family goes for at least one long ride every week – usually between 20 and 35 miles. We’ll slowly build up to 50 miles by the time we’re ready to roll out-of-town in July. Continue reading →

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Posted in bike touring, bikes, family cycling, kids

Tagged bike touring, family bike touring, riding with kids, stoker, tandem, training

Xtracycle Stoker Stems

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Tim K | 4 comments

I covered stoker bars a while ago. That was a cop-out because the bar is the easy part. Almost anything will work (chopped off mountain bike bar, old BMX bars, Albatross, whatever). The hard part is mounting the bar in such a way that the passenger’s nose is not stuffed into the rider’s butt.

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Posted in buildin' the xtracycle, longbikes, shopping, wrenchin', xtracycle

Tagged bikes, building, cheap-ass-parts, components, ebay, parts, shopping, stoker, xtracycle

Xtracycle Build Details: Stoker Bar

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Tim K | 3 comments

This is part of an ongoing series of posts (ok, it’s the first–we’ll see how it goes) on the building of our Xtracycles. We get lots of questions about putting them together so I thought I better start documenting. Normal people would do it in order, starting with the actual kit, but me, I gotta start with the stoker bars. Maybe I just like saying Stoker….

Interested in the build? Read on, then see the blurb at the bottom and watch the “Buildin’…” category.

For our stoker bar setups we used some cheap ebay tandem stems and beer-can shims to mount bars for our passengers. I’ll get to the stems in another post but for now, here’s the scoop on these sylish Nitto “Swept-Back” bars.

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