That's true Steve, but unless you're really interested in maximum speed, a stoker stem and Albatross bars will fix most of that problem. Eunice can worry about that later.
Michael On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 6:47:36 AM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > The big issue with captain height is that on a tandem, the stoker's > handlebar height is limited by the height of the captain's saddle. A short > captain equals a lot of bar drop for the stoker. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "cyclotourist" <cyclot...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > To: "RBW Owners Bunch" <rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 12:27:25 AM > Subject: Re: [RBW] Re: tandem captain advice? > > This is rad!!! Good advice so far. I presume you'll be going slow to > start, so the aero advantage of larger captain won't matter for > initial rides. As long as she can straddle the bike and hold it > steady, that's all you need. Captain hugely need to call out bumps, > shifts, coasts, and "Punch it, Chewie." > > We dismount to left, but that's from singles and avoiding chain > tattoos. Always start off with a "Right foot up" check and go. > > As stoker, please keep your feet on the pedals at stops. Unless > dismounting, stoker never needs to put feet down IMHO. Nothing throws > me off more at stops or intersections... bad things can happen. > Clipless helps out a bit with that. The team will learn when to lean > together, I never found that a big problem or learning curve. > > Be patient with the captain!!! Hope it turns out to be a great ride! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
