Bill Yeah, luggage style. My BART bike tends to be in the 45-50lb range loaded with all my work related stuff. My shoulder couldn't take that.
other Bill On Apr 5, 10:14 am, Bill Connell <bconn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:48 AM, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I portage my Hillborne up and down the long steps of the South > > Hayward Bart station, I grab it hard on the seat tube and loop my > > thumb into the top loop of the King cage that is bolted to the seat > > tube. If I'm wearing knit gloves, it's hard to get a good grip. More > > than once I've thought that it would be great to have a second top > > tube about halfway down the seat tube to simplify urban portage. > > Portaging a bike is a main thing that gives me pause with the 2tt > designs. I may be wrong, but from your description, it sounds like > you're carrying the bike like a large piece of luggage, which might be > a lot simpler in a train station setting. In my case, there are at > least a couple of places around town where trail access involves a > long staircase or (on one offroad trail) a long log crossing, so i > shoulder the bike, cyclocross-style. I don't use a tt-mounted pump on > most bikes for this reason, and the smaller triangle of a 2tt would > make it more difficult. Of course, i recognize most people probably > don't generally have reason carry their bikes like this. > > -- > Bill Connell > St. Paul, MN -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
