With practice, you can ride platform pedals and never worry about your feet slipping off (that is, unless something happens that brings with it a much larger problem than your feet slipping off). The dumbest (and most fun) things i've done on bicycles was done with good old platform pedals:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43029...@n07/4009451976/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/43029...@n07/4009446854/ I could not imagine doing anything like this clipped-in, in fact it's scary to even think about. On Oct 13, 8:15 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 04:47 -0700, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > > I have tried 3 different clipless pedal systems, with 3 different > > pairs of shoes, but each time, I came back to flat pedals. I see some > > advantage of being attached, but not enough to make it worth changing > > shoes. And on long rides, being locked in one place actually causes > > more fatigue and discomfort than free-floating on MKS Sylvan Touring > > pedals. I have become so accustomed to letting my foot roam around the > > pedal that even spiky bmx pedals seem too restrictive (I have bmx > > pedals on my fixed-gear and on my unicycle (ouch!)). For all types of > > riding, I use thin-soled, flimsy shoes, by the way. > > > Anybody who does it differently is clearly wrong, and probably has a > > range of other moral failings. > > How, I wonder, do you keep your feet from coming off the pedals > accidentally? Talk about fatigue and discomfort - when my feet "roam > around", even on my townie/errand bike, I find they have an alarming > tendency to come off the pedal or to be misaligned, and it seems like a > lot of work to me to constantly have to think about foot placement. > That's fine for a short-distance townie, where the emphasis is on > off-bike activities like walking around in the supermarket, but when I'm > actually out for a ride, forget it! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
