Riding with two bikes
 

What's the best way to bring a bike to a friend? Take it apart and try to strap it to your bag? Carry it on your shoulder?

Riding with one hand on each bar is a bit scary because you can't skid or operate a brake.

ride in an automobile

hold the bike by the stem and lift to keep the front tire off the ground and keep at arms length
-g

i just hold my bars on the brake side, and hold the other bars on the non-brake side, and hold it as far away as i can.

ghost ride the whip?

I've strapped my road bike to my messenger bag on a few occasions. Kinda messy and dangerous, but do-able.

Maybe you could run a rod from the one yo're riding to the handlebars of the other and tow it.

Sounds hard.

Joe
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Put it over your shoulder like a mess bag, upside down so the wheels point away from your back. Depending on the bars you can wedge them somewhere to keep the fork from turning, or just tie them off. Ride back roads because you're going to be taking up a lot more space and going slowly. I've done that for a couple miles, but it'll get uncomfortable pretty fast.

tell your friend to walk his/her sorry ass over to where you're at and get the bike themselves rather than put you in a potentially dangerous situation...maybe?

i carried one over my shoulder before and just rode on the sidewalk in the burbs

diff_lock2 posted this in the townie thread

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this sounds the most logical

+pie.

if they want it, have them come get it... other wise use a car. if you still want to ride it over ride it next to you, but its sketchy and super uncomfortable. I wouldn't do it for a distance that it would take me longer to walk in 20 min, so just have them come get it.

Just hold the stem, no biggy

take off the wheels and strap everything to your back.

Yikes, this never works out well for me. Frames are pretty easy to carry over your shoulder, but whole bikes are dangerous. There are lots of things that can get tangled with your bike, I won't do it unless the spare bike won't roll. I normally just hold my handebars where I can still operate the brake and hold the spare by the stem. Just make sure the handlebars don't it each other, if they get hung up you'll crash.

i would take the wheels off, throw the frame over your shoulder, and strap the wheels to your back. i've never tried it with wheels, but frame around the neck/over shoulder works well.

If by "works well" you mean "is incredibly uncomfortable and dangerous since it's hard to steer and operate the brakes while sitting upright enough to hold an extra bike steady plus it's also annoying since you get all greasy and dirty and with wheels strapped to your back it would be even worse!" then yeah, I agree. Seriously, just ghost ride the spare bike it's much safer and easier.

que? by works well I mean I did it last week with 0 problems. It takes some adjusting before you start riding but once you get it right, no big deal. I also was not the least bit uncomfortable while doing it, the only part that sucked was the noise the wind made vibrating around the bike.

Im use to ghost ridin a bike to someone...

But is the bus really that expensive???

what's wrong with ghost riding? Haven't had any problems yet.. just keep in mind that if something comes up you should ditch the bike in your hand and ride to safety

Oh man, if someone made a piece that clamped to your seatpost that you could attach the fork to, that would be perfect. Then you just have to carry the other wheel.

Edit: I'm going to look for a free front hub with a QR, then duct tape it to the bike when I need it.

I've done this a billion times; i ride with a front break though

so wait, you have to hold the stem because it is broken in the front?

The most elegant solution I've seen was similar to that. A front QR hub zip tied to the rear rack.