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new-stoker advice is ‘just keep pedalling’ and ‘don’t lean’
Also don't steer. Ab initio training often has the stoker holding the captain's waist to prevent steering inputs from the back , followed by holding the centre of the bars next to the stem.
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Stoker stem grip is good advice, discovered this by accident.
From motorbiking feel like I'm a good rider with a pillion /passenger on, but i myself am a terrible passenger /pillion, tend to over think and then react to every tiny movement from the pilot which then caused issues, also physically cannot sit still for ten seconds, ever!
Need to get some tanoming done this summer, have to taje bike outsude off city though, a million potholes/lights and neither of us are very experienced
BrickMan
My new-stoker advice is ‘just keep pedalling’ and ‘don’t lean’. Tandems are much more stable when underway so you can adjust this advice once you make it that far.
We had a 0mph tumble outside the caff at the bottom of the galibier as we were cold and tired and temporarily forgot this wisdom.