Originally Posted by
Machka
My hamstrings have all the flexibility of 2x4s. When I told my chiropractor I wasn't very flexible, he nodded and smiled, and then put me through some flexibility tests ... and could hardly believe how inflexible I was. He told me he has never come across someone with as little hamstring flexibility as I have. And that's not the first time I've heard that.
And yet I find stepping over the top tube so much easier than trying to get my leg WAY up over a saddle.
How do you get your leg to go over the top tube without going over the saddle first? My top tube is more than three feet off the ground, I can't just stand and lift one foot three feet and the top tube is even higher when the bike is on the trainer. I think your a lot more flexible than I am.
I have to tilt my bike to the side a bit to get on but I can't do that when its on a trainer. I also can't clip into one of my pedals then step up on that pedal and throw my leg over as my foot would have to be turned at an extreme angle to clip in or I'd have to be standing on the leg of trainer itself.
I find it easier to have a couple of milk crates to step onto.