When you say "loaded" and "super heavy", I assume you're talking about the bike with substantial luggage. That gets really awkward, with the front wheel wanting to pivot and panniers adding their weight & access limitations. In those situations, I take the bags off & make in 2 moves. PITA of course but I can't really lift 50-60 lbs and man handle it up or down stairs. In general, I use Andrew's technique for the bike itself. Taking the bags off creates its own set of difficulties in crowded situations or sketchy areas.
dougP On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 10:06:40 AM UTC-7, drew wrote: > > silly question, but every time i have to go up or over something, i seem > to try a different way of grabbing the bike and each way feels awkward or > unstable or bad for me. i've always been a shoulderer, but a frame pump up > along the top tube ruins that, and doing this down stairs with a super > heavy bike makes me nervous. carrying it like THIS > <https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0156/2360/products/Bicycle-Frame-Handle-ErinBerzelPhotography-4263_large.jpg?v=1380321457> > seems > like a good position, but i have too much derailleur/bottle cage action in > that area for this to work on my bike. of late, ive been reaching over in a > similar fashion and grabbing the seatube, but again, the bottle makes it so > that i am grabbing it pretty high up and just lifting with my arms. > considering getting a smaller frame pump that i can put along the seat > stay to clear up the top tube for shouldering, but i feel like there has to > be a simple maneuver that im missing. > > anyone have this figured out? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
