Does anybody do this?

[wannaduacentury]

How do you get on your bike and take off? Remember when you were 10 and you put on foot on the pedals, swung your leg waaaaay over and mounted the sadle and took off all at the same time? Does anybody still do this?

Or, do you stand over your bike, put one foot on the pedal and slip up on the seat, putting the other foot up and take off.

I do the second one. If I tried the first one, I'd end up with the bike as a heap on the pavement- I'm clumsy LOL.
Jenn

[Crankin]

My husband does the running start every time he rides, with Speedplay pedals. I do the stand over thing, clip in right first and then push off with my left.

[coyote]

For the past 3 years I've started by putting one foot on the pedal, push off with the other and then swing that leg over the back or fold it over the front (depends on what bag I have on the bike and how flexible I'm feeling). By the same token I'd do a rolling side dismount....stand up, swing one leg over to the other pedal until the bike is almost stopped and then step off. It felt really good to do that.

Until I got the road bike with clipless pedals. Now every once in awhile I still have the body memory of the mount and dismount. I only have had one really really strong urge to do the side dismount and luckily I squashed it in time. But some times I look at my road bike and have a moment of confusion on how to get on. I've only had the road bike about month so I'm sure that it will pass.

[sundial]

Well......I guess I could try one of those fancy mounts. But then, I'd have to add another embarrasing story to the discussion.