Project Triplet

During the last couple of years we really enjoyed cycling with our daughter Lea on a Tandem. Lea was about 4 years old when we purchased a used Cannondale tandem. We immediately modified it with a so-called Stokid which is a kind of special crank-set for children. Lea is nearly 9 now and still enjoys it. However, in March 2003, we got twins. Anja successfully tried to carry all 3 children now on her tandem which sometimes looked like this:

As Lea gets older now, the idea was born to let her cycle on her own most of the time and have a slightly longer bicycle to carry the twins instead. The Project "Triplet" was born.

Anja uses the tandem daily for nearly every ride into the city. For heavy usage, I discovered the Rohloff Speedhub, which is an internal 14-gear hub. So this was my first prerequisite for the new bike. As you may know, there is a great Tandem/Triplet manufacturer in the US called Santana. Unfortunately, Santana does provide Rohloff options only with some limitations and for an essential additional charge. After all, we decided to build the bike by ourselves. I searched a couple of weeks and compared several frame builders and decided on Gleiss. Karsten Gleiss has several years of experience in building custom frames and also in building tandems, triplets and quads. So, during the next months I'll keep this site up to date about what happens with the Project Triplet.

March 2nd, 2006
I received the first pictures from Gleiss.

Triplet still unwelded Triplet still unwelded other side

July 13th, 2006
The frame of Red-Porsche-Killer arrived.

RAL3000 — no it is not a fire engine ;-)

Rohloff dropouts will allow a smooth
integration of my 4th Speedhub