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By David Fiedler, About.com Guide to Bicycling

Great Cycling Word: Stoker

Saturday April 26, 2008

Here's a great cycling word to add to your vocabulary:

Stoker: the rear rider on a tandem bicycle.

Photo: David Hunter/Flickr

Comments

April 28, 2008 at 2:36 pm
(1) Bicycling - Dave says:

Another good term for the second rider on a tandem – “rear admiral”

April 28, 2008 at 4:21 pm
(2) janet says:

Second rider — Hey She’s not peddling

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