When do you get off and walk?

[Deleted member 1258]

When I can't turn the pedals anymore and its a case of dismount or fall over.

It happened here last winter about a dozen yards from the top

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I was coming back from the Lickey Hills

 

[TheDoctor]

When it's too steep or I fancy a change.
I walked up some of a few cols when I was Bromptonising Provence.

 

[TheDoctor]

FFS!! Forum software keeps dual posting everything...

 

[ColinJ]

FFS!! Forum software keeps dual posting everything...

No it doesn't - you lot are double-posting! (The pages are not refreshing so everybody is clicking 'Post Reply' lots of times. Just manually refresh post-post-posting until Shaun appears and fixes the problem. )

 

[Arthur]

When I can't turn the pedals any more, although I unclip one foot when I sense that point approaching. The older I get the less shame I feel about doing it.

 

[DaveS]

When my ego overrides my common sense and I put too big a gear on.

 

[Twinks]

Haha I got off and SOMEBODY ELSE pushed on Saturday!! Following hubby through the swollen stream at Rowarth on my hybrid my bottle went . Someone came along wearing wellies and offered to push it through for me and I jumped over the bank at a narrower bit. How humiliating.

Otherwise on hills its normally seconds before I have a compete strop and a sulk..... I hate being beat. However we live in the hills and its happening less and less so that's good

 

[Old Plodder]

1. When it's too steep to ride?

2. Slightly before it gets too steep to ride, so as to save your legs for other hills later on

Obviously 2, otherwise you'd be knackered.

 

[Smurfy]

Obviously 2, otherwise you'd be knackered.

I suppose it depends where you are in the ride too.

If it's the last hill before home, I'm not too bothered about limping the last 5 miles home. If it's 10 miles into a 50 mile ride, it feels a bit silly to risk blowing up so soon.

There's a hill about 1/4 of the way into a 50-60 mile ride that I do, and I know it can't be ridden on my gearing, so I hop off quick rather than struggle for even 10 seconds longer. It seems more sensible than fighting something I know I can't win, and then struggling on other hills that would've been fairly easy if I hadn't battled the impossible.

 

[jdtate101]

My fixed is 46/17 and I can get up most of the hills round my way up to about 15%. Can do steeper if they are short and I have a run up, but I'd prefer not to. 10% is about the limit for a longish climb without my kneecaps feeling like they want to fly off.

 

[twitchboy]

Only when I'm in seriously heavy traffic and I can't actually cycle do I get off and walk along the pavement.

 

[simongt]

And of course, many, many years ago, folk would tour on single speeds and a three speed derailleur was something a bit special - ! As a lad in the 1960s, a five speed road bike was something most of us could only dream of owning.

 

[Smurfy]

And of course, many, many years ago, folk would tour on single speeds and a three speed derailleur was something a bit special - ! As a lad in the 1960s, a five speed road bike was something most of us could only dream of owning.

One of my relatives owned a 4 speed sturmey archer, and that was pre-WWII.

 

[iandg]

When I get to the cafe stop

I rode 64" last summer and the only hills I walked up were 2 by Bosta beach which are probably about 15% (I'm not that powerful) When I have to I bail at the last possible moment I can before falling.

 

[Tin Pot]

When the train arrives at Cannon Street.