Originally Posted by
OneIsAllYouNeed
Some folks do a workaround whereby the stoker sits more upright than their normal road position. They'll use a multi-part stem to jog the stoker handlebars around the captain's seat. The stoker stem looks like this:
The other cheap modification for taller stokers is to use a wide handlebar that wraps around the captain's hips. Note that 47cm bullhorn bars are fairly common on the back of tandems. You can see that concept taken to an extreme here with these 56cm wide bullhorn bars:
This was a worry of mine and I was looking all over for exactly this! I think some combination of all this could work.
Thanks so much for your post!