Originally Posted by
bhchdh
Did you have a spare bike or a stokerless tandem for the rider ?
No we were on a 3 week tour, so everyone had racks and panniers (most). We arbitrarily declared the lightest girls as "designated passengers" and let them switch off in that role, then we had the strongest riders hand off their luggage and take one person ( three or four riders rotated in this role. The rest was spread around as well as possible, with periodic switching off as needed. Turns out the hardest job wasn't having a girl as a passenger, it was being the passenger.
Once we figured it out, we got better as we went along. Meanwhile a bike was ordered, and put on a Jackrabbit bus to a destination/meeting point for the next day.