Originally Posted by
TiHabanero
The worst part of pushing a loaded bike up a climb is hitting the inside leg on a pannier. I have often given thought to removing the offending pannier and strapping it down to the opposite side of the bike so that I can be more vertical when pushing instead of having to lean over from one side when pushing.
Have you weighed your packs and gear?
I'm pretty close to 50 lbs of packs and gear without water, food or fuel.
I'm been thinking about the safest way to push a bike on a road with cars and little shoulder. Since my natural position would be to push on the left side of the bike, it seems to me that I'd be better off on the other side of the road (we drive on the right) so the wheels are on pavement and I'm a bit out of the way and can see what oncoming cars are doing. But my feet would likely be on gravel, which may not be ideal for pushing. On the right side of the road the bike would be in gravel, I'd be on the pavement or also in gravel, and cars would be pretty close. Looks to me that the far side is the better side. Do you switch from one side of the bike to the other on a long push ?
I was pretty inpired by reading a post by a woman who pushed her bike for eight hours one day in the alps on a single uphill.