"Resound" <
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> "Tamyka Bell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> DaveB wrote:
>>>
>>> LotteBum wrote:
>>> > wear a jersey as well), doing up his toe straps (who the f*ck uses them
>>> > these days!?!)
>>>
>>> Hmmm, well I use them on the commuter and the SS. On the commuter
>>> because I don't trust my ability to unclip quick enough in CBD traffic,
>>> ad on the SS because I want to ride to the shops in whatever I'm wearing.
>>>
>>> DaveB
>>
>> If your toe straps are loose enough that they're quicker to get out of
>> than clipless pedals, they might as well not be there
>>
>> Tam
>
> I've only recently gone clipless and I had straps that I could get
> in and out of quikly and easily. They were still snug enough that I
> could haul up on them and if I tried riding something with flat
> pedals my feet skidded all over the place. They were definitely
> doing something for me.
Maybe Tam is a clip system troll... ;-)
As a toe strap wearer, I can certainly confirm what you say. It seems
to be a myth made up by people in love with expensive "clipless"
systems (you know, the ones with the clips) that toe straps are
useless unless they are tight. They are not useless, and I wouldn't do
serious riding without them. Just for starters, without them, feet
have a habit of flying off the pedals at the most inopportune times --
even an unexpected bump in the road could do it (and has). With
just-tight-enough straps, my feet have never come off the pedals
unless I wanted them to, yet I can get my feet off the pedals almost
as easily as if the straps were not there. Furthermore, it is
eminently possible to pull up on straps that are not quite tight, thus
gaining a good portion of the efficiency of clips.
It should also be obvious that *tight* toe straps are *dangerous*
unless, perhaps, you are riding a fixed wheel on a velodrome (in which
case, these days, you'd almost certainly be using clips instead of
straps so you don't embarrass yourself by falling over while loosening
straps... ;-) ).
Cheers,
David
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