POLL: How many stairs do you carry your bike up?

[cyclingfool]

My bike stays in the basement/storage/laundry area of our apartment building, so it’s one step up through the entrance door for the building, and then down a half flight (split level entry to our apt. bldg.), or approximately 8 steps. In the AM it’s the reverse, so up about 8 steps to get it outside.

At work there are no steps involved. I can walk in and out of our building’s lower level to either of the streets it borders w/o using stairs.

[GB]

0 – ramps at both ends

[TwoWheelsDC]

Zero. Bike rolls right into/out of the shed at home, and at work I roll right up to the bike racks in the garage.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Zero. One if I bring the bike into the kitchen at night. Yes, the kitchen.

[PotomacCyclist]

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[But if an elevator is available, I will choose that over the stairs.]

[kcb203]

I just ride up and down the stairs:

[Terpfan]

0, I walk/ride it into my shed. I could also bring it into my basement with 0, but no need to do so. I used to do 14 or so (7 up/7 down) at our old apartment building. It may sound great, but then i also doubled the length of my rides and probably quadrupled or more the elevation change–so the stairs were the easier alternative.

[consularrider]

Three from the walkout basement or one from the shed.

[Rod Smith]

Four stairs but it takes me three trips to get the trailer, bike, handcart and gear inside.

[UrbanEngineer]

Zero on most days. Office and condo building both have racks in the parking garage. The rack in my condo building is 1 spot per unit, so if I take my other bike out that is stored in my bedroom, I carry it down 28 steps on the way out and up 28 steps coming back in…Couldn’t care less about the steps, it’s the tight stair landing that makes it a pain.

[KWL]

@ColumbiaHeights 68437 wrote:

32 stairs

If’n I had that many to negotiate, I’d start commuting on a carbon fiber fixed gear brakeless bike. With tires inflated with helium.

[vvill]

With a walkout basement it’s 0 but usually I don’t want to ride over damp/wet roots/grass/dirt – in that case it becomes 15 or so.

If I have the trailer/MTB or a dirtified CX bike it’s always 0 as in that case I don’t want to track anything inside the house.

[bobco85]

3 stairs from the sidewalk to my building + 2 stairs on the front stoop + 1 step up into the building doorway + 14 stairs to the 2nd floor = 20 stairs for me.

To prevent theft (it happens frequently enough in my neighborhood), I live on the 2nd floor instead of the 1st, and like the OP I keep my bikes in my apartment. It’s not bad, but if I have both baskets full of groceries, it’s not really carrying my bike rather than pushing it diagonally up the stairs. I’ve figured out how to hold my bike diagonally by the handlebars while getting my mail from the mailbox at the base of the stairs and putting the mail in one of my baskets.

[W Odie]

One step out the back door of my garage.

[PotomacCyclist]

@kcb203 68482 wrote:

I just ride up and down the stairs:

Once the bike is outside, this is how you put it on a car (although I guess you could actually ride the bike at that point):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1VXFYEQxs

[Despite my posts about putting bikes on cars, I don’t even own a car myself. It’s just that seeing bikes on top of cars reminds me of the Tour de France.]

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