Flutterby™! : Face to face tandem

I had seen this on the Tandem@Hobbes list, but Shadow passed it along, and it is worth posting: A Gizmodo snarky look at a face-to-face tandem, and the link I originally saw, same info, less snark.

Although the various back-to-back recumbent tandems seem kind of cool, this one wigs me out a bit. It might be kind of cool for toodling all over a mostly empty bike path or something, but a stoker would have to have tremendous amounts of trust for this to work, beyond just the usual abnormal amounts of trust, and having the stoker right in the middle of the captain's vision just seems... well... I won't be riding it anywhere that I have to worry about any other traffic, or at any speed.