Hello everyone,
I recently got to try out a Hase Pino with my brother. And I was surprised with how slow we were. It's one thing that any hill felt impossible, but even on flat it felt like we were barely moving. Has anyone had a similar experience with those bikes?
I did end up having a crankset failure so I'm wondering if maybe the model was faulty. It was an electric model that we rode with the motor off, so maybe that created additional drag as well?
I was planning to rent one for some cycling holidays but this experience made me less enthousiastic and I'm not looking at normal tandems which maybe ride better
My experience with tandems is they are normally faster than most single riders. You have about twice the watts pushing two riders that are drafting impossibly close, and on downhills they can hit outrageous speeds. They usually fall behind on climbs, though. I'm leaning towards something was wrong with the one you rode.
I just finished a 450km trip with my GF on pour pino. Mostly flat but with some steep climb here and tere. We rode 16km/h average. On her own she does 13km/h, me 22. It takes time to get used to the recumbent driving it's not the same muscles than normal bike. Hope that help, if you have anymore questions !
Thanks, do you have experience on a regular tandem? Also I've we've both felt like at the front the gear always felt too high and at the back too low, is that just lack of experience?