Yeah, I forgot to mention that on my other response, I was surprised to see you were using flat pedals with no toe clips. If you're not careful, the stoker can get whacked in the lower leg if they stop pedaling but the captain is still pedaling.
However, using toe clips does make starting and stopping (slightly) more complicated. We have had good luck using "The Proper Method" and good communication but YMMV. It sounds like you are off to a better start that we were. The first ride was not fun, but it's gotten better since then. http://www.gtgtandems.com/tech/propmethod.html I think part of our problem is that the bike is just not big enough for me. I have a 350mm seat post and a stem extender. I would like some more reach but 1'1/8" threaded seems to be unobtainium. If I had a long threadless converter I would get a 160mm stem for sure. I have thought of having a custom stem manufactured. I would like to upgrade to a custom but that would be pricey, I'm afraid. We don't ride the tandem enough to justify the expense. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Tony DeFilippo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Michael! You know I like the toe clip idea, we've already had an > issue several times when I transition from coasting to pedaling with > spinning too fast and Erika's feet come off the pedals... I'm trying to > aleviate that by letting her know earlier that I want to start pedaling > again so that we don't have to spin to fast, to quick. > > On the Paul canti recommendation, are you using one of their tradiitonal > canti's or the moto-lite's? I was thinking about upgrading the brakes > eventually, I have an older set of the Paul 'Stoplight' canti's that are > pretty sweet and equivalent in design to the lower profile canti's they > currently offer. > > We've been a little shocked at how well we communicate on the tandem. We > have struggled somewhat in docking our boat over the past several years > (26' sailboat) and both of us kind of expected the tandem experiment to be > short and unpleasant but to our surprise it has been anything but. I feel > like I'm narrating the bike ride to a recorder sometimes but all in all we > both like it. There is no way we would have done 27 miles together on > single bikes yesterday as we would have been constantly getting seperated > and frustrated with eachother. > > Tony > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
