+1. Well, I do believe that the Captain controls the bike, but if the stoker gives up stoking, you have a pretty poor time controlling it, so I think that works!

On our most recent organised tour there were couple of quite hilly days and after lunch a couple of times DD gave up the ghost and hopped on the sag wagon.

I was surprised to find I actually got up hills easier without her! I guess that answers the age-old question of whether her marginal power gain/weight gain ratio added up! Obviously she pulls well on the flats but doesn't have the muscle up the big hills yet.

Of course when you ride a tandem you find out there are only two tandem jokes. I swear that on both our big tours (and other miscellaneous rides) everybody that passed us joked..

"You know she's not pedalling on the back!"

And then when she got off and hopped on the sag and I was riding on alone...

"I think you've lost something!"

And you know it's a really savage headwind or hill when people don't tell one of these two jokes as they pass!