Always a funny subject for me. I use mountain bike shoes and have had a ton of cyclist tell me that I should use road shoes. I tired them and I don't like them. But they continue to tell me how efficient blah blah blah........
But only 10 cyclists I know have done this timed event. Hundreds do the local baby charity rides. But none will touch these rides when I invite them to ride with me.
However, there was a time when a local forum was very active and a few of use planned on this ride. Yeah, it's a race type timed event and everybody competes with one another while talking trash on the forums.
3 RACERS told me that I needed road shoes. One was a racer who logged 8,000 miles per year. The other a Race Across America 5 time veteran. The other a local long distance racer (brevets/ California Triple Crown winner etc).
Anyway , we did the event and I beat the racer by 45 minutes. Actually more but he whined to the organizers about cheating him on his time.
The Race Across America guy, I beat by over an hour.
The long distance racer guy, I beat by 3 hours!
So really, being one of hundreds of local forum members and local cyclists who have actually done some serious rides around here, I wear what I want and nobody says anything about it!
I tell you, trash talk on the forum is meaningless when somebody actually kick your ass on a real ride. SO I wear what I want and don't care what others say.
The guys who are worried about what they wear and worried about their gloves being color coordinated with their shoes are posers anyway!
One of maybe 10 cyclists I know who have completed these rides. A few I know who failed.
But thousands and thousands around her who won't even give them a try.
MTB shoes, wtf do I care what I look like ?! I completed the ride 4 times already!
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the rides that scare people!
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