Where are the women on bikes in Melb?

[amirm]

wrote:
> Once a guy in sandals passed me and I found that one a little upsetting
> but later I saw him unclip and clip in again. Didn't know you could get
> plugger-cleats. Has anyone seen them in a shop or were they custom
> (home) made?



On my commute, sometimes a guy riding with bare feet passes me. I like
that, because watching him for a while is quite entertaining. Not just
the bare feet, but the ride seems to be a duallie with worn pivot
bushes. The rear wheel wiggles to left and right frantically as the guy
pushes on bare feet like there's no tomorrow. I don't have anything
against it, it's just different.



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[cfsmtb]

Tamyka Bell wrote:
> Once a guy in sandals passed me and I found that one a little upsetting
> but later I saw him unclip and clip in again. Didn't know you could get
> plugger-cleats. Has anyone seen them in a shop or were they custom
> (home) made?




Do you mean these: (scroll down to lower right) <http://www.shimano.com-
.au/publish/content/australia/en/cycling/products/shoes_and_pedals/moun-
tain_shoes.html>

or

<http://tinyurl.com/2k4hq>

or were they a DIY sandal?

I realise this is not terribly lady-like to mention, but this is the
time of year when one stops, *ahem*, de-fuzzing one legs. Prefer to stay
warm + legs/sleeves/thermals. Be fashionable? Left that behind long ago.



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[rickster]

Tamyka Bell <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
[snip]
>
> Once a guy in sandals passed me and I found that one a little upsetting
> but later I saw him unclip and clip in again. Didn't know you could get
> plugger-cleats. Has anyone seen them in a shop or were they custom
> (home) made?
>

They are made by Cannondale and are available in Australia, but not everywhere.

Rick

 

[rickster]

Tamyka Bell <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
[snip]
>
> Once a guy in sandals passed me and I found that one a little upsetting
> but later I saw him unclip and clip in again. Didn't know you could get
> plugger-cleats. Has anyone seen them in a shop or were they custom
> (home) made?
>

They are made by Cannodale and are available in Australia, but not everywhere.

Rick

 

[blah]

"DRS" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I've passed the odd roadie whilst on my hybrid... they Do Not Like It.

I also feel really cool and fit when I pass people. Then I think
"maybe they're riding three or four times as far as I am, and are
pacing themselves". This thought always puts the brakes on my superman
complex (if you are superman (Brad Magee, perhaps?), I apologise).
I just figure nobody likes to be passed. How does the age-old maxim
go? "If you are behind me, I will try to stay away; if you are before
me, I will try to catch you..." It's obvious you are the same, as are
they. Get over it. You will be passed; you will pass. I have been a
"roadie" since September, and I was passed and dropped by a guy on a
MTB last week on Whitehorse Road. Didn't Like It, as it showed how
unfit I was after the six week lay off due to a bulged disk in my
back, but it didn't make me disobey traffic signals either. Older guy,
too... pedalled like a machine... That MTB must have been his Clarke
Kent equivalent... or maybe I'm a fat ******* on a skinny bike. Oh
well.

 

[? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}]

amirm <[email protected]> writes:

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> On my commute, sometimes a guy riding with bare feet passes me. I like
> that, because watching him for a while is quite entertaining. Not just
> the bare feet,

What!? He doesn't have cleats surgically inplanted into the souls of his
feet?

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