Originally Posted by Mentor58
I was just leafing thru Bicycle Magazines book on Touring, and their basic recommendation was that you should be able to pick up the bicycle with everything loaded on it and be able to carry it for 100 yards without putting it down or dropping it. If you can't, according to them, it's too heavy.
Steve W.
I would also suggest that a person should be able to carry their loaded bicycles up a flight of stairs too. I was faced with doing that on a few occasions while traveling in Europe.
And no, Adiankur, they aren't suggesting that you carry the bicycle one handed. You can use both hands ... like if you were going to lift it over a log on the road, or onto a train.