Originally Posted by
globecanvas
As good a place as any to ask this question. I'm interested in tandeming, but my worry is that it will be not as fun for the stoker (I guess that is the right term?) as riding separate bikes.
Here's my 2 cents as a noob tandem team, IF you have a great relationship and TRUST with your "stroker", (no matter, wife/husband/SO/boy/girlfrend, etc.) and YOU as the capt. can handle being able to say, I'm Sorry a lot, LOL, then I think, from what my wife (stroker/navigator) says, is that it's actually a lot of FUN riding a tandem. If your a "ME" person, it's gona be hard cause you've got to constantly THINK about what the stroker needs to know during the ride, ie: bumps, turns, shifting, etc. When they call tandem riders a "TEAM", they really mean it, otherwise I think you'd both hate the experiance. For us we really dig being on a tandem, hope this helps. FYI, YMMV, JMHO.