Discovered a silly walk mode benefit today.

[speedkills]

This may be old hat to some of you but it just occurred to me today when facing smacking my bar into a tree on a climb and coming to an abrupt halt, then having to restart and seeing I was in the wrong gear. I grabbed the front brake, pushed forward on the bars a bit to bring the back tire off of the ground, then engaged walk mode and proceeded to shift down a few gears with walk mode turning the rear wheel.

This made me happy.

 

[Rosemount]

Yep !
I learnt that from EMBN .

 

[Jay355]

This may be old hat to some of you but it just occurred to me today when facing smacking my bar into a tree on a climb and coming to an abrupt halt, then having to restart and seeing I was in the wrong gear. I grabbed the front brake, pushed forward on the bars a bit to bring the back tire off of the ground, then engaged walk mode and proceeded to shift down a few gears with walk mode turning the rear wheel.

This made me happy.

 

[maynard]

That's so impressive if u did it on the bike.

 

[Darren]

My bike doesn't have a silly walk mode

 

[KenX]

Visions of John Cleese..............

 

[speedkills]

That's so impressive if u did it on the bike.

Heh, I used to do it with my pedal bikes that way, picture me pushing my hips into the bars to pic the back wheel off of the ground, then leaning left some as I support the bike with my left leg and front wheel, while kicking the pedals with my right foot and shifting. This way is so much easier.

 

[Zimmerframe]

Visions of John Cleese..............

I just read the title, had that vision and there was your comment ! ??

 

[speedkills]

I will practice this tomorrow

I also figured out on the way home that on a gravel road where you don't mind spinning the rear tire on the ground, you can do it without picking the back tire up, just let it spin in the gravel and shift.

 

[Zimmerframe]

Or a dog poo.

 

[Nicho]

Visions of John Cleese..............

I remember the episode of Fawlty Towers when Basil started beating his Levo with a tree because it wouldn't start again!

 

[Nicho]

Or a dog poo

You mean switch the motor into Turdo mode?

 

[billwarwick]

I just read the title, had that vision and there was your comment ! ??

“Is this the argument room?”
“I’ve told you once”
“No you haven’t...”

 

[Pivot]

People, behave please!

John Cleese funny walks have been declared no longer funny, nor socially acceptable as they hurt people’s feelings.

 

[Frankenbetty]

just don’t mention the war...

 

[Andy__C]

This may be old hat to some of you but it just occurred to me today when facing smacking my bar into a tree on a climb and coming to an abrupt halt, then having to restart and seeing I was in the wrong gear. I grabbed the front brake, pushed forward on the bars a bit to bring the back tire off of the ground, then engaged walk mode and proceeded to shift down a few gears with walk mode turning the rear wheel.

This made me happy.

I've never thought of that before....... nice. (and genius)

 

[steve_sordy]

I just lift the rear wheel off the ground, change gear than spin the crank with one foot. It's a lot quicker than engaging walk mode, that's for sure.

 

[Nicho]

“Is this the argument room?”
“I’ve told you once”
“No you haven’t...”

Excuse me, is this a five minute arguement or the full half hour?

 

[Nicho]

just don’t mention the war...

They started it!

 

[Doug Stampfer]

This may be old hat to some of you but it just occurred to me today when facing smacking my bar into a tree on a climb and coming to an abrupt halt, then having to restart and seeing I was in the wrong gear. I grabbed the front brake, pushed forward on the bars a bit to bring the back tire off of the ground, then engaged walk mode and proceeded to shift down a few gears with walk mode turning the rear wheel.

This made me happy.

I'm having a hard time envisioning this...what do you do with your three spare hands while riding? put them in pockets?

 

[Pivot]

I'm having a hard time envisioning this...what do you do with your three spare hands while riding? put them in pockets?

Easy to imagine, do you remember Louis de Funes in Fantomas movie (old school French comedy)

 

[speedkills]

I'm having a hard time envisioning this...what do you do with your three spare hands while riding? put them in pockets?

Hmm...I could take a video, but that would violate my rule about images of myself on the interwebs. Maybe I could make an elbows down exception to the rule.

 

[speedkills]

I just lift the rear wheel off the ground, change gear than spin the crank with one foot. It's a lot quicker than engaging walk mode, that's for sure.

I still use this technique for a single gear, but on my Levo walk mode is so quick and easy to engage that I'm finding I prefer it for multiple gears. Missed a turn yesterday and ended up needing to drop 4 gears to get going the right way again, worked great for that.

 

[speedkills]

I'm in Nederland (but figured nobody had heard of it, and technically it's Boulder county), which makes that an even more accurate assessment I think.

 

[Zimmerframe]

Used to take chicks up to steamboat springs all the time.

If they were good to him, he'd bring them back too...

 

[Zimmerframe]

That was about 6 years ago....Not those ones.... that would make them almost 30 now.... sheesh.

Blimey ! grab a granny !!

 

[mxtyphoon]

I don’t have it and was told in the USA they don’t allow it, which sucks. There’s times some of us old men could use it.

 

[randycpu]

I don’t have it and was told in the USA they don’t allow it, which sucks. There’s times some of us old men could use it.

Do you have a Levo?
What year?

 

[mxtyphoon]

Do you have a Levo?
What year?

Have a 2018 Trek Powerfly with a Bosch motor

 

[Tmeyer37]

I don’t have it and was told in the USA they don’t allow it, which sucks. There’s times some of us old men could use it.

I am in the US and my Trance E has it and my buddies Levo has it as well.