How do you push your bike?

[Seevio]

Today I was pushing my bike through a pedestrian tunnel in Oxford in what I thought was a fairly standard manner. Apparently though, I am some kind of freak as I noticed almost everybody else held their bike differently to me.

So I thought I'd ask here to see if people everywhere use the same method or if its just an Oxford thing.

When pushing your bike in a flat pedestrian only area, how do you hold your bike?

 

[cyberknight]

By the saddle and steer by leaning it

 

[Mo1959]

Very rarely have to push my bike anywhere, but I would grab the middle of the handlebars around the top of the stem and push it from there.

 

[Alex321]

Hold it around the top of the stem. You could hold it anywhere on the handlebars really, but it seems easiest holding it in the middle.

 

[classic33]

If in a busy place, it's by the stem and handlebars. Otherwise it's by the saddle as mentioned by cybernight.

 

[cougie uk]

Today I was pushing my bike through a pedestrian tunnel in Oxford in what I thought was a fairly standard manner. Apparently though, I am some kind of freak as I noticed almost everybody else held their bike differently to me.

So I thought I'd ask here to see if people everywhere use the same method or if its just an Oxford thing.

When pushing your bike in a flat pedestrian only area, how do you hold your bike?

How were you doing it ?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Using the walk assist

 

[Cycleops]

Saddle here too.

 

[Sixmile]

Upright on the back wheel, holding the handlebar grips..

..if I'm pushing it through my narrow side gate and into the shed

 

[Seevio]

How were you doing it ?

I was using the one hand on the stem method. Almost everyone else had both hands on the handlebars in the same position as if they were riding. Looked very awkward to me.

 

[T4tomo]

Today I was pushing my bike through a pedestrian tunnel in Oxford in what I thought was a fairly standard manner. Apparently though, I am some kind of freak as I noticed almost everybody else held their bike differently to me.

So I thought I'd ask here to see if people everywhere use the same method or if its just an Oxford thing.

When pushing your bike in a flat pedestrian only area, how do you hold your bike?

So how were you pushing it?

 

[Drago]

On the nearside where possible so as not to risk entanglement in the drivertrain in rhe event of a mishap, with the bike between me and the traffic/suspects, both hands on the bars with a finger covering each brake. Old pilots, bold pilots.

 

[Teamfixed]

More and more often.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In the style of interpretive mime

 

[Saluki]

I was using the one hand on the stem method. Almost everyone else had both hands on the handlebars in the same position as if they were riding. Looked very awkward to me.

They are the weirdos, not you