Old 01-29-13, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by zonatandem
Possibility:
Stoker is not pedaling as hard/efficiently as pilot.
Try pedaling 90 degrees OOP . . . always a powersroke going over the top compared to pedaling in-phase.
Am not an engineering, but over 38 years tandeming experience.
Pedal on!
Rudy and Kay/zonatandem
Rudy, I have not doubt my dear stoker pedals less efficiently. Unfortunately, with the daVinci it's very difficult for her to get out of sync. We've tried to get OOP, but failed. I think your suggestion has a lot of merit; we will try again. The key would be finding a cue that the stoker can use to lock into OOP as she currently does IP.
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