" Is it OK to get off your bike and walk up a hill?"

[Supersuperleeds]

I don't walk up hills, I just avoid them.

 

[GM]

Yes! That's why they're called push bikes.

 

[iandg]

Enough said

do a google image search of 'Koppenberg' and look at the pros doing it

 

[MikeW-71]

Even the pros have had to do it.

Many years back, tackling the Muro di Surmano, many riders slung their bikes over their shoulders and ran up cyclocross-style.

 

[MarkF]

I actually find getting off and pushing the bike is harder work.

On tours if I am struggling upwards and slowing down towards 7kph, I get off and push, doing so always seems like a rest to me.

 

[oldfatfool]

The only problem with stopping and walking on a hill, is getting started again on the hill

 

[jefmcg]

Funny. Previously that article enraged people here at cyclechat.


Blood-boiling article in the Grauniad

 

[postman]

Yes it is ok.After i finish on the Leeds and Liverpool canal,i walk myself and bike over Kirkstall Road and up past the swimming baths.I hate that road and its junctions.So much safer to cross using the Green Man.I get on after the Railway Station,when it levels off.Do i care no.I have also spotted a little cafe sarnie shop.I might just give him a visit.Instead of Costa in Headingley.Support the locals i say.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Walk!!!!!!!! no chance thats a defeat in my book

 

[Ian H]

Especially on fixed. You have a 24" gear, so use if when necessary.

 

[Jimmy Doug]

We fight enough battles in our stressful lives without finding others in our free time.

 

[HertzvanRental]

Consider it an economy measure-less wear on the chain!

 

[ACS]

Walking up Cairn O'Mount on my first 200km Audax I was overtaken by another pusher who simply said "Never met a hill I could not walk up" Being 14 stone its a mantra i'm trying to keep very much alive.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

This reminds me of an Arran outing some members of my Ladies group did a while back, I could not go as I was working, had not been at all then, but knew about the hills.
So a few months later I met some of the participants, asked how they got on, I was told:
"Well, we took the train to Ardrossan, then the ferry to Arran, then we started cycling. On seeing the first hill, we turned back and waited for the group in a coffee shop. All in all quite an expensive trip for coffee ..."

 

[Sara_H]

St Chris Boardman.

I love him, I want to marry him and have his babies.

And ride/walk up lots of hills with him.