the stoker position is often compromised with shorter reach
On older tandems, yes, but people coped. If you want a 700mm seat pitch, you're going to be shopping in the 21st Century. The one you're being offered is as long as my trackdem, and we squeezed @umop3pisdn into that space 🙂
Yeah, plunge. If tandeming works out for you then you can get something newer and better later, and if it doesn't then you might as well find out on something which has already done all the depreciating it's going to do.
On older tandems, yes, but people coped. If you want a 700mm seat pitch, you're going to be shopping in the 21st Century. The one you're being offered is as long as my trackdem, and we squeezed @umop3pisdn into that space 🙂