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I have just had clipless pedals fitted to my road bike and tomorrow I will
commute to work on it just to see what the difference is. I have been practicing clipping in and out in my living room and it seems quite fiddly at the moment, particularly the unclipping bit. I have to twist my feet quite far found to disengage. Hopefully I will manage to get too and from work without falling off. Adam |
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Adam Lea wrote:
I have just had clipless pedals fitted to my road bike and tomorrow I will commute to work on it just to see what the difference is. I have been practicing clipping in and out in my living room and it seems quite fiddly at the moment, particularly the unclipping bit. I have to twist my feet quite far found to disengage. Hopefully I will manage to get too and from work without falling off. I think the first time you use these, you need the tension screw set very loose. The first day I commuted to work with these, I got to the final junction before work, and was surprised that I had not fallen over. So surprised in fact that I promptly err.. My advice is to practice clipping in and out as you are going along the road. |
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"Adam Lea" wrote in message ... I have just had clipless pedals fitted to my road bike and tomorrow I will commute to work on it just to see what the difference is. I have been practicing clipping in and out in my living room and it seems quite fiddly at the moment, particularly the unclipping bit. I have to twist my feet quite far found to disengage. Hopefully I will manage to get too and from work without falling off. Adam If you can't clip out - the pedal tension may be too tight. If you have to twist too far to get out - it may be that the cleats are slightly misaligned. Peter |
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You won't fall off to start with because you'll be conscious of having to unclip. The dangerous time comes after you've got used to unclipping, but before they are totally subconsciously ingrained in your brain :-) My paticular favourite is the slow, gental fall to the floor. I also like the 'panic stations' one where your wiggling your foot like mad but nothing happens! I got some mud on my feet the other day and had to circle round and round the end of a quite junction wiggling my little leg like made. Note to self: don't put a foot down when it is muddy! |
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Nat said the following on 11/07/2007 08:50:
My paticular favourite is the slow, gental fall to the floor. I also like the 'panic stations' one where your wiggling your foot like mad but nothing happens! I got some mud on my feet the other day and had to circle round and round the end of a quite junction wiggling my little leg like made. Note to self: don't put a foot down when it is muddy! The one I like (!!) is where you're approaching a junction where nothing *ever* comes out of or goes into, so you don't unclip. Then one day, there's something there...... -- Paul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ |
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in message , Adam Lea
') wrote: I have just had clipless pedals fitted to my road bike and tomorrow I will commute to work on it just to see what the difference is. I have been practicing clipping in and out in my living room and it seems quite fiddly at the moment, particularly the unclipping bit. I have to twist my feet quite far found to disengage. Hopefully I will manage to get too and from work without falling off. I know it is probably too late to say this, but have you made sure your cleats are really really really, really really really tight? I say this because I once put cleats on a little less tight than that (only five reallys) because I thought I would want to adjust their position later. And the result was I had to twist my feet quite far round to disengage... and so of course I fell off. Cleats need to be tight. Like, really tight. Really really really really really really tight. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ... a mild, inoffensive sadist... |
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Nat wrote:
You won't fall off to start with because you'll be conscious of having to unclip. The dangerous time comes after you've got used to unclipping, but before they are totally subconsciously ingrained in your brain :-) My paticular favourite is the slow, gental fall to the floor. I also like the 'panic stations' one where your wiggling your foot like mad but nothing happens! I got some mud on my feet the other day and had to circle round and round the end of a quite junction wiggling my little leg like made. Note to self: don't put a foot down when it is muddy! I've never had a problem unclipping except once. I had parked the bike in town, got some shopping and when I set off had difficulty clipping in. When I got to the first red traffic lights I couldn't unclip either and ended up holding on to the traffic light while I extricated my feet from my shoes and then my shoes from the cleats. Turns out some b*****d had done the tensions springs up to max while I had been shopping :-( So if you have trouble clipping in after leaving the bike unattended, don't persevere just in case. Tony |
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Simon Brooke said the following on 11/07/2007 09:48:
I know it is probably too late to say this, but have you made sure your cleats are really really really, really really really tight? .... Cleats need to be tight. Like, really tight. Really really really really really really tight. Could you please quantify that definition? :-) :-) -- Paul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ |
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On 11 Jul, 10:44, Paul Boyd usenet.dont.work@plusnet wrote:
Cleats need to be tight. Like, really tight. Really really really really really really tight. Could you please quantify that definition? :-) :-) %@!$! tight in "Real World" (R) Calibrations? http://sheldonbrown.com/tork-grip.html |
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Cleats need to be tight. Like, really tight. Really really really really
really really tight. Once you've found the limit (and so stripped the thread in your road shoes) Specialized sell new wossnames for 50p. |
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