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Old July 10th 07, 11:50 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Adam Lea
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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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Old July 11th 07, 12:40 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Martin Dann
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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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Old July 11th 07, 08:13 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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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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Old July 11th 07, 08:50 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Nat
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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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Old July 11th 07, 09:04 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Paul Boyd
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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......

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Old July 11th 07, 09:48 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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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.

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Old July 11th 07, 09:49 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Tony Raven[_3_]
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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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Old July 11th 07, 10:44 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Paul Boyd
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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? :-) :-)

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Old July 11th 07, 11:29 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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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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Old July 11th 07, 11:54 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Mark[_2_]
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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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