Thread: Is there a proper way to get on a bike?
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Old 05-04-23 | 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Darth Lefty
You straddle the bike, put the lead pedal a little over level, and then you lift yourself into the seat from the first stroke.
I'm left handed and I doubt I've ever gotten on a bike from the right in 55 years of riding adult bikes, and this is the way I get on. Based on the Post #1 video, all of my bikes are broken? I'll await evidence, but color me skeptical.Trying to imagine how mounting up causes more load than, say, sprinting or standing on the pedals on a steep hill.
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