Originally Posted by
Paul_P
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.
only you know what you are carrying, but if you can bring this down, you'll appreciate it.
adding in water, food and fuel is going to make it pretty heavy.
in the end, you're going to have to spend a week on the road to figure out what stuff you really dont need, but again, we have no idea how heavy your tent is, campmat, sleeping bag, and if you have too many redundant pieces of clothing and or heavy clothes to begin with.