Telling the stoker when you will stop or start pedaling is imperative, along with breaking and shifting. Also bumps in the road. I still have trouble with the last one as I will sometimes suddenly stop pedaling and lift my buns off the saddle. I'm supposed to yell bump - which means I will do all of those things.
The "standard" method of stopping and starting is pretty simple. Let the stoker know, coast to a stop, and put a foot down. She stays seated with her feet on the pedal. To start my stoker drops the left pedal; I clip in; she lifts that pedal, gives me the go ahead, and I push off with my right foot. It's easier if you have more stand over than most RIV people do on a single, since the pilot has to straddle the bike with his feet wide enough apart to allow the pedals to spin. You'll get the hang of it quickly. michael On Monday, June 30, 2014 11:46:16 AM UTC-4, Tony DeFilippo 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.
