How To Carry Your Mountain Bike | Hike-A-Bike Techniques

The purpose of a bike is to ride it but unfortunately that is not always possible. If you’re out on a long adventure ride or the trail simply gets too gnarly to ride up, sometimes carrying your mountain bike is the best plan of action. Find out how in this video.

Join Blake in the Highlands of Scotland as he teaches you a few hike-a-bike techniques that will prove invaluable on your epic rides!

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Have you tried any of these techniques? Let us know below

[BikingVikingMTB]

Cheers Blake I had no idea on how to carry my mtb up on the trails especially on steep climbs.! Wish I new this technique two years agao

[marty]

Hi GMBN Team,
I recently watched this video about "how to carry my bike" and then yesterday I got into such a situation to carry my bike over 10 km.
I was so glad that I heard the tips from Blake before!
So, I just wanted to say thank you for your work.
Keep going!!!

Greetings from Germany

[komerka]

Did not expect this video to be so helpful. Thanks Blake (and everyone else at GMBN)

[IPM]

Clipless pedals ? Who are you and what have you done with Blake ??!

[leanfort]

This is really a healthy content GMBN! I mean we ride our bikes all the time. Maybe sometime we need to carry them just to return the favor 😂 just sayin.

[aldude]

My personal technique for short distances is to reach down and grab the down tube and then lift to hook the saddle nose on my shoulder to hold the weight. You can us the hand on the down tube to balance it if it wants to lean forward/back.

[ragzard]

I've never seen the the 2 ways Blake showed to put the bike in the back. It's genius!! Thanks, again, folks!

[ljaki]

Not something i knew i needed to know but glad i do now.

[kahlildanielpenaflor]

Whenever I want to ride my bike and my dads car is in the way out of the garage, I always have to carry it or let my dad carry my bike. I always try to find a easy way so this video helped a lot. Thanks Blake!!!

[Icantfindtheanykey]

I dunno ... every time I'm down from work or whatever, I pop a Blake vid and makes me laugh and my mood gets better everytime. Thanks Blake.

[massieuf]

Thank you for sharing. Several options to carry my MTB!!!

[metafister]

Tip number 2 in the video is pretty good for building shoulder muscles as well I found.

[brandonreimer]

5:00am and a new gmbn vid? Time to wake and blake

[chriswillis]

Nice, i learned something today...
Sometimes I reach over the top tube and grab the bottom tube... stand up straight and walk...

[brentN]

Now THAT is the perfect weather for cycling. Great tips. Like the first one.

[dosetti]

I put a 12cm aluminium bar from the front bottom bottle holder screw to the seat tube bottom bottle holder screw and i can carry my bike as a briefcase with one hand. I still recon this method in the video is better, thanks!

[downwinddemon]

This video could have been done in a parking lot...


But that's not why I love GMBN ;)

[habanerat]

dumbbell or kettle bell squats will really help!

[rai.shraavan]

I had been waiting for this video to try it on my MTB