Wow, you guys are freaking me out!
Ok, ok, we'll go out and try 20-40 miles tonight first.

By the way, the thread comment that convinced us to try this was the one posted by transam in which he cited his four concerns prior to the experiment, three of which we're exactly the same as ours.

1)We'd no longer be able to stand to go up hills
2) Fast cornering would be impossible
3) Our pedal stroke would be jerky

We weren't concerned about the fourth item "others tandem riders will think we look weird". I think it's obvious that when your ride around on a cow-painted tandem wearing cow-spotted jersey's, others thinking you're weird isn't really on your list of priorities, ha, ha!

However, we felt the stongest argument for remaining IP came from tandem geek when he said his stoker likes the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh sound. Boy, if we have to give that up it will probably be a deal breaker!

Pat & Gabrielle
TEAM COW ROCKS!