I should've said swinging my leg over. Rarely, I do step over the middle of the top tube or swing my leg over the handlebars. But I have to think about it as being the best option. Old habits and all, swinging my leg over the rear is what comes naturally. So I guess a mixte would feel the same unless I change my mounting habit to stepping over the top tube.
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 1:58:43 PM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > > On 04/26/2016 04:25 PM, Daniel D. wrote: > > Sometimes stepping over my top tube feels like a chore. Not very often, > usually at the end of a long ride or just when I'm carrying a lot of stuff. > When I test rode a clementine after a sam and clem I didn't notice any > greater convenience mounting or dismounting. But it wasn't a long or > heavily laden ride. So looking for thoughts from people that were on the > fence like me kinda intrigued but hesitant and took the plunge. > > > I never "step over" a top tube. I have half a dozen bikes, one of which > has no top tube; I mount them all the same, and "step over" doesn't > describe it at all. I stand near the back of the bike, lift my leg a bit > and roll/pull/shove the bike back so that when I put my leg down I'm > straddling it. There's very little knee bend involved. I don't even step > over the top tube of a tandem (I swing my leg over the front, over the > handlebars). > > The bike with no top tube looks a bit like this: > > > > Even with my AM (much earlier model than this current one) it's still more > convenient to do the leg lift/bike shove maneuver than it is to face the > frame and literally step over the tubing. It's kind of funny, because Alex > Moulton, the designer of the AM, hated top tubes and when he set out to > re-engineer and improve the safety bicycle, getting rid of the top tube was > one of the most important objectives. Even so, I mount this design exactly > the same as I do my level top tube bikes. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
