Stephen Baker ) writes:
William says:

3. to mimic arm paddling have the blades on both sides enter teh water at
the same time - paddle, glide, paddle, glide - instead of constant churning
of the water.


Gonna kill your legs, Will. Much better to have a constant pedalling pressure.
Try riding a bike where half of the chainring (front cog) has no teeth. ;-)

no moreso than paddling kills your arms. and legs are stronger than arms.
the only problem I can see is the weak mechanical advantage of the small
diameter rotation of the kid's toy crank. like having the peddal crank on
a bike smaller than the cog wheel on the axel. the paddle shaft would have
to be short as feasible. hadn't considered that.

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