They work for my old, light Carnac touring shoes with flexible plastic soles, and no cleats, just ridges that work with my favorite Lyotard Marcel Berthet plaform pedals, and make an easy do it yourself project.
There is this kit: http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/accessories/toe-clips-straps-shoes/toe-clip-leathers.html They don't last forever, and may help some shoes last longer. It is all in the details. I go back and forth over the style aspect of it. Sometimes I even use valve caps and a helmet mirror! On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Jan Heine <hein...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I like that idea – it used to be available on some French bikes, perhaps > also to keep the edges of the clips from digging into the shoes when you > use touring shoes without a cleat that keeps the shoe located precisely > where you want it (away from the front of the toeclip). We'll see whether > we can make it happen. > > Jan Heine > Compass Bicycles Ltd. > www.compasscycle.com > > Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ > > On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 2:36:59 PM UTC-8, Lee Legrand wrote: >> >> >> Have you thought about or is it in the works to have those >> leather fittings or strips that fit around the metal on the toe clip? Not >> the straps but the stitch leather in the toe clip to that protects the shoe >> from metal of the toe clip. >> > -- > 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. > -- Bill Gibson Tempe, Arizona, USA -- 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.
