How to Carry a Cyclocross Bike on a Shallow Run

Video Transcript

"For a shorter shallower run, or when you know you're running through the hurdles, you want to just pick the bike up by the top tube usually. So you get off the same way and then you just sort of, you know, hold it up like this. This is good for a shorter run or a sprint, where you don't want to go through the, the hassle of picking your bike up, you know, all the way to your shoulder. If it's a, a steeper run where you need to get your front wheel farther from the ground, so it doesn't rub, you can do the same thing. You can remount, I mean you can dismount, grab it from the down tube and pull up like this. This is actually getting to be an increasingly common method to carry, even on longer runs, because more and more bikes are starting to have what are called compact style frames, where instead of having a horizontal top tube, the bike slopes down like that. It's really not a good idea for cyclocross, but you see a lot of it. And that makes it much harder to, you know, throw your shoulder through there to get a good, to get a good flick up onto your shoulder. So you know, shallower runs, shorter runs either pick it up by the top tube, which is especially good on flat sections and through barriers, or for shorter shallower gradient run, pick it up by the down tube, hold it like that with your, you know shoulder nestled in between the seat and the top tube."