Originally Posted by
INSANEDESIGNS
When my wife and I ride (We are new to tandem) Do I, the "Captain" have to work as hard as the "Stoker" on the hills, It seems as if she gets hardly winded at all, I am cranking pretty hard. When we ride singles, She can't hang with me at all. Is there any science behind this or are we equal??? Hope the question makes sense!
HA HA This is the eternal tandem question. "Are you pedaling Dear?" On our new tandem (The CoMotion Speedster) , because we are in-sync, I can pretty much tell when my stoker is "on" and when she is "off". This is especially true on hills though and while we are at very different levels climbing on our singles, we can BOTH get pretty hammered on a tough climb. I guess the bottom line is, you should feel some input from the back, otherwise your stoker is just spinning along.
Frank