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

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

>

>

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

> >

> >

>