Hi,

Thanks for your email!

I figured it was a long-shot, but what the heck. I will probably order a new
one, but there's a 7-week wait; I was hoping to find a better price and be on
one sooner than a new one.

I'm not a bike junkie, but in Life Before Kids I did commute by bike throughout
Rochester for nearly 2 years. I travel from site to site for my work, and was
amazed that I could get around town faster by bike, saved lots of time spent
previously parking the car and walking into a building, and had cash in my
pocket each week from gas savings.

Now, with two strong and healthy young ones, probably 90% of where we three
travel together is within a 5-mile radius of home. There is no excuse to be
driving!

Paul and I have been chatting, and he put me in touch with someone close by who
has a triple tandem. We all met over the weekend and we three got to try it.
Unforunately, it was converted into a standard tandem, but we got enough of a
feel for it to want one for sure!

In the meantime, I'm thinking about ordering a solo BF for myself, if I can get
one quickly. School ends next week, and I can drop the kids off at day camp and
bike to work everyday. I'm thinking about NWT Tourist 8 or NWT 16.

Any advice ?

Amy
---- Andrejs Ozolins <aozolins@...> wrote:
> Hi, Amy --
> Sorry to not get back to you sooner. It amused our Bike Friday guru,
> Lynette, to make me the official head of the Bike Friday Club of the
> Finger Lakes, but such a club has never really jelled. The registered
> folks are yet to become even a handful. On the other hand, there seem to
> be BFs all over the place. Last weekend I rode my Pocket Rocket Pro on a
> weekend self-supported tour around the lakes. We left Friday afternoon
> for Filmore Glen State Park, where we camped. The next day, we hauled
> our stuff some 55 miles to Sampson State Park. And, Sunday we came home.
> I pulled the BF suitcase with its trailer-kit -- and it was really
> great! Anyhow, my point was going to be this: although it wasn't a Bike
> Friday event, we had three Bike Fridays on the trip out of 9 bikes. The
> others were another Pocket Rocket Pro and a gorgeous tandem. And it
> turned out that each of the other BF owners knew yet more BF owners. We
> are everywhere!
>
> Your request is really a long-shot. In reading email lists, I've seen a
> triple for sale, but I don't think more than once. I hope you've found
> the bikefriday.com website, which also lists used bikes for sale. Right
> now even they don't have a triple. I know that their price is probably
> more than you'd pay if you could find the owner directly. But, this kind
> of thing may really require the centralized power of the company store.
> They are more likely to get one than any of us just asking around.
>
> If I were you, I'd continue to look around, but also contact BF and ask
> them to let you know when they hear something. Why don't you call Paul
> Adkins and tell him what you're looking for. He has a triple himself --
> sometimes pulling a trail-a-bike and trailer at the same time! -- and
> would be a good resource for you regardless of how you find your bike.
>
> Give a holler if you come to the Ithaca area and we'll go for a ride or
> at least have a beverage!
>
> Andrejs
>
> divegoddess@... wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Greetings from Rochester!
> >
> > I'm a single mama with a 5 and 7 year old, and we want a BF triple
> > tandem!!!!!
> >
> > Does anyone know where we might be able to pick up a used one ?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Amy
> >
> >
>