Rocco used to wax lyrical about tandem taxis for the decent of the Roc. The only time that our tandem did taxi service to solos in 1999 was to a bunch of short of time vedettes to the penultimate control - they needed all the help they could get given we had started off from the 84 hour group and had to repair the tandem three times, plus borrow a rear wheel.
This time around, Rufus the tandem trike started off slow, could be something to do with his left hand wheel having 10 spokes unwittingly snipped in half. Then we kind of got our act together. On the way out solos did seem to want to attached themselves to us until they saw the way Rufus cornered. On the return we spent a lot of time passing solos on climbs. Most of the time to stay with Rufus on descents solos needed to be able to travel at round about 60kph. No mega descents though as we didn't get to 79kph, Rufus' all time best.
Note to other riders - please give tandem trikes and trikes the room they need to perform their in ride acrobatics.