*yawns*
*stretches*
Did someone say summat about tandems and Small People?
Better saddle for who, though Kim? The Cubs have happily enough done a 50 (SmallestCub) and a 100 (EldestCub) using the islabikes one that's on there. They have both got miniscule arses tho - and the one time I stoked on it I swapped the saddle for something sensible first
I thoroughly recommend the Helios - best thing we ever bought. The SmallestCub was 6 when we bought it and he started stoking for me, but he'd had a lovely trip out on the back of Butterfly's one (using the crank shorteners, cos he's tiny) when he was 4.
Ours has been piloted by me (5'1"), the EldestCub (slightly taller), CrinklyAuntie (slightly taller again), CrinklyUncle (looks quite tall to me) and Deano otp (who I believe is 6'). Stokers have included both Cubs (and several of their school friends have had a turn), me, one of my headteachers (who was wearing a smart suit and high heels at the time - we got a round of applause from year 1-4 when we returned from our trip round the block and executed a faultless stop and dismount) and CrinklyAuntie who courageously stoked it for me all the way home from Granny Annie's once despite the potential for sibling bickering and the fact that I'm a left-foot-down big gear masher and she's a wrong-foot-down small-gear-spinner. Nikki and Kim also had a play in the park once. Oh, and my old uni friend Martin took it out for a spin with his 9yo daughter when they popped in for lunch last summer when they were in town for my ex's wedding and she was rather taken with it
The QR seatposts are marked so if you can remember your numbers it's a matter of moments to adjust correctly so long as the stoker bars aren't sent somewhere completely silly (they don't take long to alter but you'd need an allen key) and the saddles suit the likely riders to an acceptable level.
I also ride it stokerless all the time after doing the school run, on my way to work - including 8 miles out to my furthest site on occasion - and am about the same speed on it as on my sensible hybrid. Since we bought it they have started to do a version that can indeed be taken apart for transport which I would have got an even bigger mortgage to pay for had it been available at the time.
Test rides always available in York, along with overnight accommodation and guided tours to Clarion and Butterfly's local or a range of other Yorkish hot-spots, by arrangement. Oh, and cake, generally.