Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
A few weeks. I'm sure like anything it gets better with practice. And we've climbed standing OOP; it just doesn't feel as well coordinated to us.
One problem however that I don't see how to address OOP is "rocking" or "dancing" with the bike. When you're getting after it out of the saddle you're pulling up on the bars on the side you're on the down stroke on the pedals. OOP this would result in the stoker wanting to lean the bike one direction, and the captain another.
Thus OOP it would appear you have to keep the bike straight upright as you pedal, which is going to be somewhat of a limiter on maximal efforts.
We are usually not as strong, especially climbing, as the teams that we ride with, so we have to stand on the steeper parts of hills where we would normally get bogged down. We are definitely getting better, but I can't see us standing with OOP, which we rode for years prior to the CoMotion.
FRank and Terry