One for the mile-trackers

[Hip Priest]

If you're like me, you have a log of your mileage. However, I've often wondered whether you log the distances where you're forced to get off and push, due to weather, mechanicals or exhaustion.

I hit my 4000 mile target for last year, but that 4000 miles included a couple of deadly climbs where I was forced to get off and push, and a couple of commutes where I had to climb off and push the bike down an icy cycle path. Do these miles count?

I'd be interested to hear yout thoughts.

 

[ianrauk]

I've never had to get off and push on any of my rides.
But I wouldn't have thought you are not talking about long distances are you? Probs a couple hundred yards or something?
If that's the case then it's not going to add up to much to worry about.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

You probably have more free distance in the free wheeling on the down hill sections so I wouldn't sweat it.

 

[Boris Bajic]

You probably have more free distance in the free wheeling on the down hill sections so I wouldn't sweat it.

Freewheel??

Sorcery and witchcraft!

 

[Boris Bajic]

You probably have more free distance in the free wheeling on the down hill sections so I wouldn't sweat it.

Freewheel??

Sorcery and witchcraft!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Freewheel??

Sorcery and witchcraft!

If I can get my lardy arse up a slope, I am entitled to enjoy a breather on the other side

 

[Black Country Ste]

Your still moving, on bike or foot does it really make that much of a different. Anyhow the distance you walk would be limited, its still exercise.

That. I'm logging a pushbike journey, sometimes I may have to get off and push.

Try filtering up hill in Powke Lane, Cradley Heath. If you don't run out of steam first you'll run out of road. It's actually quicker to push.

 

[Norry1]

If I am travelling with a bike and it moves using my power only, I would include it whether I'm cycling, pushing or freewheeling.

If I was holding on to a car whilst sat on my bike, I wouldn't.

 

[Hip Priest]

Cheers for the replies. I don't even remember posting this, but I'd had a few err...Belgian recovery ales.Yeah, as ianrauk puts it, we're talking a combined distance that probably wouldn't constitute a single mile. I should stop being so anal about it.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

I have to admit, I log everything.
Mileage
Days cycled
Days Holiday
% of car vs bike, which is 100% for the last 2 years !
Weather conditions
Raining statistics
Bike costs - money
Bike savings - money
Best times
Worst times
Punctures
Mechanicals
Parts mileage replacement life in days
So I have been cycling to work for 3 years and 6 months and have done 24,099 miles give or take a few.

 

[Lancj1]

When you hit 4k, go out for a 5 mile ride and don't log it. Bet that's more than enough to level things ?

 

[Drago]

I never get off and push. Would Ranulph Fiennes get off and push? Would Felix Baumgartner get off and push? Would Hulk Hogan ever get off and push? No they wouldn't, and the day a hill is too steep, or wind to powerful that I can't ride it is the day I buy a bath chair and a chequered blanket to go over my legs.

And I've never suffered a mechanical I couldn't bodge my way around.

 

[deanE]

I never get off and push. Would Ranulph Fiennes get off and push? Would Felix Baumgartner get off and push? Would Hulk Hogan ever get off and push? No they wouldn't, and the day a hill is too steep, or wind to powerful that I can't ride it is the day I buy a bath chair and a chequered blanket to go over my legs.

And I've never suffered a mechanical I couldn't bodge my way around.

Not related to Lance, are you?

 

[clarion]

I had a cycling friend in the 80s in Sheffield called Bert Nelson. When he was made redundant from the steelworks in his sixties, he spent everything on a Colnago Master with Campag Super Record. He would push it up the hills, then freewheel down the other side. A great man, though, and an inspiration. Given everything he'd done in his life thus far, he'd earned those downhills.

 

[Hip Priest]

I never get off and push. Would Ranulph Fiennes get off and push? Would Felix Baumgartner get off and push? Would Hulk Hogan ever get off and push? No they wouldn't, and the day a hill is too steep, or wind to powerful that I can't ride it is the day I buy a bath chair and a chequered blanket to go over my legs.

And I've never suffered a mechanical I couldn't bodge my way around.

In my defence, the only hill that's beaten me is the steepest bit of the Ryals, which is like 25%+ with no run up! I'm not going to get a bath chair or a blanket. I am going to get fitter and get up that hill.