Carrying a bicycle

[Danny-B-]

Could consider leaving a set of bike wheels at the bike club then you just have to transport the frame ... which might be alot easier to strap to the side

But im with Cobbz ... give up Cycling ... its not good for you anyway ...

[BigShot]

I've been known to tow a bicycle with a bicycle so I'm probably well placed to offer some sort of input. I can't promise it'll be any good, but I'll offer it anyway.

That thing that clamps the bike up as if it was a pillion passenger looks decent to me. Far better than my bodged-together method anyway. (I bungee strapped the front wheel of the towed bike to the left side of the rear triangle and rear rack of the towing bike, stuff a few tissues between to stop scratching and ride with the towed bike basically doing a wheelie down the road.)

Crap for reversing (the towed bike lays down on the road if you try) but I'm inclined to think the system with it strapped on would be pretty good and FAR less problematic for balance than a pillion. I expect.

Think about it - compare the weight of a bicycle that's well secured in place (and if you're a roadie, crosser or cross-country race snake it's probably a featherweight anyway) to the weight of a person who moves independently of both you and the bike.

My main concerns would be bored coppers (they'd have to be, really) and the effects of bits of bike hitting you hard in the event of an off. I doubt I'd even consider the latter and just find out about the former.

As for giving up cycling - they don't know what they are missing.

Ride a bike and you can eat pretty much anything without worrying about weight or health. You can ride with plenty of booze in you (if you're sober enough to control the bike, you're sober enough to ride legally), riding to and from a good pub with good ale is one of the finer things in life. Then there's the efficiency - converting fuel (petrol [1 gallon = 31,000 calories] or an equivalent quantity of food) to calories, cyclists get over 500mpg. The fun part is that you get to eat all that food.

EDIT - the article I read with the figure that was over 500mpg didn't account for baseline calorie use by the resting human body. MPG for a push bike is more like 800+.

Not bad.

EDIT AGAIN - it did account for base metabolism, but apparently his calorie counter is known to overestimate use which makes the mileage as much as 900+MPG. Even less bad.

Edited October 19, 2010 by BigShot

[BigShot]

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May they'll ship this way.