Originally Posted by
waynesulak
Shorter stoker cranks solved our cadence issue, but I have known others that used shorter cranks for the stoker and also longer cranks for the captain than he would use on his single. This tends to slow down the captain and speed up the stoker.
Good luck.
Wayne
Our Santana came with 175 mm for the Captain and 170 for the Stoker. Even though the cadence will be the same for both, the leg speed (at the pedal or tangential velocity) required for the captain to maintain the same cadence as the stoker will be greater. I was a little annoyed with the 175 since I wanted to standardize all my bicycles to 172.5 mm cranks.