Originally Posted by
cyccommute
I don’t go without riding without a credit card or phone but I’m realistic about the need for other tools for those not infrequent times when there is no “taxi, food, [and] spare parts” even remotely available.
Ditto.
I find it a little hard to believe that you would walk 12 miles with bad knees when riding a bike is far easier on knees than walking, in my experience. At the very least, you can coast down a hill without pedaling which is way easier on the knees than walking down that same hill is.
My legs were cramping up every time I hit the slightest difficulty, so I'd cycle for a while then get off to walk up the hills, then back on the bike and so on. In terms of time it was probably a 50/50 split of walking/cycling.