Originally Posted by
rdtompki
Just two notes on ICS:
In phase shouldn't be a problem. My stoker does it almost automatically. Now, when I've asked her to get OOP, that was a problem, I presume because the cues are harder to come by.
Looking at this differently, I once had my son on the back, 6', 190 lbs. While he wasn't a Cat 2 at that time he was very strong. His pedal stroke was so smooth I couldn't tell whether or not he was IP. In fact, he didn't want to both so was in some random phase. This was on a Large/Small with a lot of seatpost extension.
A smooth stoke is great. I had the opposite result with a 6' 200 or so pound strong son who had a very rough stroke. It was fun with that power but it was a handful even on a stiff newer CoMotion Speedster. I think a lot pf people like very stiff tandems because the team's stoke could use a little smoothing out.
Wayne