Thank you for this insight - the pedals are wide, so I've now got a narrower set - I think it will make quite a big difference. I'm never going fast enough on the straights, so I have no excuse for pedaling through corners, but hopefully the new pedals will go some way to mitigate my sloth.
IanA. On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:15:06 AM UTC-6, Jan Heine wrote: > > I'd consider getting different pedals. The lean angle allowed by pedals > varies significantly, and if you have some wide pedals with big cages, you > can pick up a lot of clearance... > > If you have pedals that allow a decent lean angle and still strike your > pedals, then I'd consider coasting instead. Pedaling around fast corners is > not a good habit. I learned this when racing, on a criterium course in > Portland on wide streets. I broke away and was hoping to stay away until > the finish. In a few corners, my pedals lightly touched the ground during > every lap, until, with one lap to go, I touched a little harder and crashed. > > I think it was Greg LeMond who said that if you can pedal through a > corner, it means you weren't going fast enough on the straights. > > At slow speeds, you often have to pedal around corners just to stay > upright. In those situations, you aren't leaning much, and toe overlap is > your big problem, not pedal strike. > > Jan Heine > Editor > Bicycle Quarterly > www.bikequarterly.com > > Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
