From:
"Steven van Twuyver" stevevt@tns.netDate: Sun, 11 Nov 2001
Subject: Loose S&S Coupler
I didn't really want to believe my Greenspeed owner's manual, which states that the S&S coupler should be tightend DAILY. Today mine loosened enough that I felt a slight rocking movement in the handlebars with each pedal stroke. I read previously someone else had the same problem. I was able to get home the last couple of miles by just hand tightening the coupler. I now carry the tool with me.
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000
Subject: [trikes] New S&S Coupling Spanner (wrench)
List-Id: Recumbent Human-Powered Trikes <trikes.ihpva.org>
We have had a few reports of some customers not being able to get the S&S couplings on their trikes tight enough with the standard 6" S&S coupling spanner.
So S&S have now produced a longer spanner with a 15mm spanner on the other to fit the Sachs 3x7 axle nuts and the pedals.
It's 185mm (11") long from tip to tip, and weighs 144g.
If any Greenspeed owners with an S&S coupled trike, would like one, please just email me quoting your frame number, name, and address, and I'll mail one out at no charge.
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000
Subject: Re: [trikes] S&S connectors
List-Id: Recumbent Human-Powered Trikes <trikes.ihpva.org>
I've invested heavily in S&S couplings this year!!! We've bought both an S&S equipped Greenspeed tandem trike and a Greenspeed GTO solo trike. Put simply the couplings just work...
We collected the tandem trike in York (it was delivered to be used at a show there). It is a 5 hour train journey home. We simply took the tandem into 2 sections and put it on the train. No problem.
We don't have many miles on the S&S equipped machines yet so I can't comment on how they behave over time but I'm completely taken with being able to dismantle trikes for shipping. It isn't a quick job but it can be done. My best times for the GTO are 35 minutes to dismantle and pack it, 45 minutes to reassemble and get on the road. I'm sure I could take 5, maybe 10 minutes of that with a better tool for undoing the GTO seat bolts - it needs a low stack height allen socket wrench...
The nice thing about the S&S coupling on the GTO is that it doesn't need any careful by-eye alignment... Either the parts of the frame are correctly aligned or they are a click of the coupling out, what 20 degrees or so off... Even I can spot such an error immediately...