When do you get off and walk?

[Smurfy]

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

 

[ColinJ]

I have low enough gears to be able to get up 20% climbs and short stretches at 25%, so a climb would have to be steeper than that (or steep for a long distance) to make me dismount. If I were going to dismount, I would prefer to choose my moment so I could dismount safely.

The other problem would be my back wheel slipping on a wet or icy surface, which would lead to an emergency dismount.

 

[Slioch]

or....
3. When I get a p**cture and I'm only a few hundred yards from home (happened once!)

 

[derrick]

What? walk never.

 

[User19783]

Colin,
How many inches are you using?,
I run a 68 inch and a 73 inch, I can ride up a hill of 20%, but no more, I usually tried to do more, but if i can't, i just turn around, and find a different route.

 

[Hacienda71]

I remember on a ride with a couple of other forum members watching a single speed attempt up Winnats Pass. The attempt finished at the gritting bin about a third of the way up when he keeled over and pushed the rest of the way.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I have low enough gears to be able to get up 20% climbs and short stretches at 25%, so a climb would have to be steeper than that (or steep for a long distance) to make me dismount. If I were going to dismount, I would prefer to choose my moment so I could dismount safely.

The other problem would be my back wheel slipping on a wet or icy surface, which would lead to an emergency dismount.

Colin, as this is posted in the ss and fixed section I don't think your dinner plate rear cog and pinhead front ring count...

 

[Drago]

Never!!!

Though this year I've had to admit to myself I ain't indestructible, so the day may come soon when I have to get off and push.

 

[arch684]

When riding my old raleigh with a 26/42 lowest gear I still refuse to walk.I wait until I get to the top and fall off

 

[MontyVeda]

I think it's actually easier to ride in my lowest gear than it is to walk/push... only the ice makes me get off and walk, as it did coming home from work at midnight last Friday... saying that, if it wasn't icy, the excessive amount of beer I'd drunk may have had me walking too.

 

[User6179]

When her husbands coming up the path

 

[Donger]

Sacrilege! ..... Never! If I find a hill I can't get up I turn round and find another one I can. Having said that, our club went up Haresfield Beacon once, and after i lost control on the 25% bit I just had to swallow my pride and walk for 100 yards. It still irks. Apart from that one, nobody has EVER seen me pushing up a hill.

 

[steveindenmark]

I am a tourer, not a racer. That means I am duty bound to get off and drink coffee from my flask, take photos, check the map etc. This is often on steep hills. But sometimes on steep downhills as well.

Or in the case of Sa Colabra on Mallorca many, many stops.

 

[ColinJ]

Colin,
How many inches are you using?,
I run a 68 inch and a 73 inch, I can ride up a hill of 20%, but no more, I usually tried to do more, but if i can't, i just turn around, and find a different route.

See below!

Colin, as this is posted in the ss and fixed section I don't think your dinner plate rear cog and pinhead front ring count...

Oops, yes - I did not notice the context of this thread!

I was talking about a 38 or 39 ring with a 23-29 sprocket for short steep ascents, For a long steep ascent, a 26 or 28 ring with those sprockets.

Since singlespeed would not help at all, I would need the same gears as above.

I have never ridden fixed so I don't know what gear I could use on what climb. I am fairly sure that my body would complain bitterly if I tried it. I have to be careful not to overstress myself or my heart rhythm gets affected, which is not good!

 

[slowmotion]

It's pretty easy. Not enough oxygenated blood gets to my legs, I start gasping, and I stop because I can't go on a yard further. It's entirely decision-free really.
I think Clint Eastwood said this after a pro-celebrity tennis match that he lost....
"My mind's writing cheques that my body can't pay".