Tandem set up

[stuart_mackay]

Hi just wondering what my options are for towing my flexi bug behind my bbs booster iv sean some tandem brackets on the bay buy they won't fit over my rear axle sooo help plz

[Badger]

How big is your rear axle then? Must be huge! I have one of the eBay hinged ones and it fits over the rear axle on my big buggy.

Steve.

[festa]

i made mine using a scaffold clamp

[sgillow]

I made mine using some metal tubing and a piece of rope. Get 2 pieces of equal length tube, pass the rope through the middle of them both, attach the ends to the footpegs and the other ends to the axle. Simples!

[popeyethewelder]

Make one

[Badger]

Hi just wondering what my options are for towing my flexi bug behind my bbs booster iv sean some tandem brackets on the bay buy they won't fit over my rear axle sooo help plz

How big is your rear axle then? Must be huge! I have one of the eBay hinged ones and it fits over the rear axle on my big buggy.

Steve.

Axle on XXracer is 48mm. Is yours really bigger than that, as I have fitted the eBay one on to mine?

Steve.

[danthedmrrider]

this is the way i attached mine to the back of my buggy im sure you would be able to made the same sort of thing to fit you buggy

[dangerous bob]

Stuart I had a couple of brakets made up, remind me & I'll let you see them down the beach some time, one goes obver the foot pegs so can be fitted and taken of very easily !

[stuart_mackay]

It's not that thick but iv not got it yet and I dons want to buy one from the bay to find it no fit

[Badger]

It's not that thick but iv not got it yet and I dons want to buy one from the bay to find it no fit

The eBay guy is a member on here too as I recall. He sells the Flexi headstock protector kits, tow ropes and makes up vinyl lettering too. Leigh Howden isn't it? I'm sure that if you gave him your axle measurements he would tell you if it would fit or not. His ones were the large clamp type with an axle that fitted into the rear buggy's headstock.

Steve.

[Cafe.Racer]

If the ebay ones are the ones I'm thinking of, google "doughty clamps". They do come in different sizes.

[jimbocz]

I've bought that tandem clamp from that guy Leigh. I just sent him an email with the mesurement of my axle and he said it was fine. You would have to have a pretty big axle for it not to work.

[stuart_mackay]

Ye I'll get one wher have they gone ?

[festa]

those doughty clamps look alot like the scaffold clamp i used for mine only easier on the eyes and not as heavy

[stuart_mackay]

Are they relly £60

[festa]

the double swivel is basically a scaffold clamp you can get them from a builder

[Badger]

the double swivel is basically a scaffold clamp you can get them from a builder

But if you buy the whole tandem kit, you also get a massive 12mm spacer to fit the front axle and fit inside the second clamp.

The advantage of replacing the front wheel with a rigid connection that does not touch the ground, is that you don't have the problem of kids not being able to properly steer the front wheel of the tandem buggy. They can just sit back and ride, with their feet on the pegs.

Steve.

[Maddog-Pete]

the double swivel is basically a scaffold clamp you can get them from a builder

Don't you find scaf clamps mark your axle mate?

[festa]

not if you don't take it off

[festa]

But if you buy the whole tandem kit, you also get a massive 12mm spacer to fit the front axle and fit inside the second clamp.

The advantage of replacing the front wheel with a rigid connection that does not touch the ground, is that you don't have the problem of kids not being able to properly steer the front wheel of the tandem buggy. They can just sit back and ride, with their feet on the pegs.

Steve.

yup thats true but i made my own spacer too

[Sand-Yeti]

Here's something I made up yonks back but only ever used it a couple of times because nobody likes sitting behind me. I don't know why?.
Note that I have removed the front wheel which means passenger doesn't even have to steer.

[popeyethewelder]

Arhh SY, my back is hurting just looking at Brig sitting there....

[Sand-Yeti]

Arhh SY, my back is hurting just looking at Brig sitting there....

Yeh! but don't you like the nice handle she has to hang on.

She only ever sat in the tandem once, which was bad for me as she was screaming her head off . I turned around to asked her not so nicely to be quiet and while I was admonishing her for her screaming antics, didn't realize that my Blade had risen up, turned and pulled my buggy skywards along with Tandem as well . Brig fell out the back and has been plotting ever since a cunning way to do me in so that it looks like an accident.

[popeyethewelder]

Yeh! but don't you like the nice handle she has to hang on.

She only ever sat in the tandem once, which was bad for me as she was screaming her head off . I turned around to asked her not so nicely to be quiet and while I was admonishing her for her screaming antics, didn't realize that my Blade had risen up, turned and pulled my buggy skywards along with Tandem as well . Brig fell out the back and has been plotting ever since a cunning way to do me in so that it looks like an accident.

Yes I did notice the handle lol....I am not surprised she only used it once...OBE or not once would have been enough lol

[stuart_mackay]

Right links plz festa can u make me a spacer please