Kids walking their bikes up easy hills
08-09-15, 03:59 PM
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I cannot help but comment on this. After work when I pick up my son from day care, I often see middle school to high school age kids always walking their bikes up a hill that I ride on almost daily. I have noticed these bike pushers are riding on multi speed bikes and this hill is not very challenging at all. What gives? I want to yell out the window at them to get on their bikes and just pedal.
08-09-15, 04:38 PM
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You don't remember being a kid? When I was a kid I remember thinking that every time I had to wash the dishes or mow the lawn was a fate worse than death. I was once forced to walk 5 miles and was surprised to survive the ordeal. I remember believing that I could not possibly run a single lap around the school track. I seldom ventured more than 4-5 blocks from home on my own for a decade. It was a very different state of mind, and I can hardly relate anymore.
She also didn't think the tubulars were very sexy. Another lesson!
08-09-15, 05:36 PM
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A couple of times I got off my bike and walked for a short distance along a flat MUP and sidewalk. Not because I was tired but because I just felt like walking. Wow big deal !!.
08-09-15, 05:38 PM
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This thread is now over six years old. You can stop chastising the OP.
08-09-15, 09:55 PM
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When I was younger, I couldn't, for the life of me, make it up really steep hills. I was a very athletic kid (I've been running competitively since I was 12) but for some reason I just couldn't bike up hills. There were hills that I'd always have to walk up, even in my lowest gear. I definitely couldn't sit and pedal up hills. I always had to stand. I'm not sure if this was because of an ill adjusted bike, or simply because I didn't have the strength to make it up the hill.
Kids are different. They don't quite have the strength that we do. It's possible that they simply can't do it.
Kids are different. They don't quite have the strength that we do. It's possible that they simply can't do it.
