On 04/26/2016 05:31 PM, Daniel D. wrote:
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.
Like me with the Moulton. The few times I try actually stepping over
the Moulton frame I usually end up not raising my foot high enough.
One other thing about top tube less frames: you have to be really
careful when you're standing still straddling the frame. You're used to
holding the frame up by means of contact between the thighs, and with no
top tube that contact isn't there. It's all too easy to have the bike
fall over sideways onto the ground, leaving you standing over it looking
stupid. That's happened to me with the Moulton more times than I'd care
to admit to.
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.
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