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List Price: $239.99
Our Price: $215.99
Your Save: $ 24.00 ( 10% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Pacific
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Binding: Sports
Brand: Pacific Cycle
Color: Red
EAN: 0038675407060
Feature: 26-inch tandem bicycle with handcrafted, oversized Hi-Ten steel frame
Label: Pacific
Manufacturer: Pacific
Model: 264070P
Publisher: Pacific
Release Date: 2008-04-02
Studio: Pacific
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Features
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26-inch tandem bicycle with handcrafted, oversized Hi-Ten steel frame
Reliable 21-speed Shimano drivetrain with SRAM twist shifters
Shimano rear derailleur and Mega Range freewheel and overdrive
26-inch tires and 36-spoke alloy wheels provide street stability
ProMax front and rear linear pull brakes; pair of comfortable sport saddles
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Editorial Reviews:
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Sunday afternoons practically beg for a bike ride, and what could be better than a bicycle built for two? Enter the Pacific Dualie tandem bike, a sturdy, comfortable bike that's perfect for you and your spouse or partner. The Pacific Dualie offers such features as a handcrafted, oversized Hi-Ten steel frame, a reliable Shimano 21-speed drivetrain, smooth and precise SRAM twist shifters, a Mega Range freewheel and overdrive, 26-inch tires, 36-spoke alloy wheels, a Shimano rear derailleur, Promax front and rear linear pull brakes, and dual sport saddles for long-term comfort.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: handlebars
Comment: The bike is great, nice bike as a whole. BUT...the handlebars for the person riding on the back are ridiculous. They are so low you are riding completely hunched over if you hold on to them, we will be modifying the bike some how.
Customer Rating:
Summary: fun, sturdy, a bit more than just a novelty
Comment: The shipping was super fast. After I got the tandem in the mail, I spent about an hour putting it together and adjusting it to fit us. If you don't have a decent knowledge of bicycle maint/repair or don't have a strong aptitude for all things mechanical, I'd suggest taking it to a local bike shop. brakes and deraileurs will need adjusted and the wheels will need truing. A lot of fun to ride--nice low gears! Has braze-ons for 2 water bottle holders by the stokers seat and braze-ons for mounting a rack on the back. Heavy but a nice ride and lots of fun for what you pay.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Major issue to consider.
Comment: When I started assembling the bike, I noticed the front bottom bracket was a type I have never seen before. It is essentially a regular cup/bearing 3 piece crank, except that the part of the frame in which the cups usually screw into is much too big for normal installation. What makes the bottom bracket fit into this larger hole is 2 metal "adapters" (for lack of a better word), one on each side. They are not threaded (nor is the frame), which means the bottom bracket can (and will!) simply slide in-and-out. The so-called solution to this problem is 2 tiny tension screws that go through the frame from underneath and tighten against the "adapters", holding them in place. I see this as a major design failure, as it undermines the strength of the cup/bearing bottom bracket [the lockring!]
What this means is, while you are out riding your new tandem, there is a probability that these tiny screws will come loose (as bicycling tends to cause). That is what happened to me, and the whole crank just FELL OUT. Had these components been visible in the picture, I would not have purchased this tandem. Other than that, most of the parts are of low quality. It also rides fairly slow compared to tandems I have been on.
Customer Rating:
Summary: my online bike purchase from amazon.com
Comment: The bike which I received in shipping package needs to assembly and has defect. The back seat insert tube (the open side) has dent. The dented tube is not round and narrow and took me time to hammer it, file it to fix the dent in order to enlarge the opening. I almost gave up before barely inserting the seat. Recommendation is to enforce the inspection before sending to customer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Tandem Chain Needs Tensioner
Comment: I am a 6', 148#, 57.5 year-old man. During a recent riding trip (when my 95# wife and I were the furthest from our house), the tandem chain had stretched to the point where it would no longer stay on the crank sprockets. We had only ridden this bike about five hours total, and I have never stood on the pedals to climb a hill (as I would normally do on my other bicycle). I complained to Amazon and Pacific and they were both very cooperative. Pacific sent a new chain, but in the meantime, I bought a tensioner sprocket and built a spring loaded tensioner out of some garage parts. I emailed pictures of my tensioner to Pacific (I would post the pictures here but cannot) and the customer service representative wrote that my recommendation would be forwarded to the product manager. No bicycle chain should be without a tensioner. Otherwise I am very satisfied with the bicycle.
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