http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: SPD - Recent Posts en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:06:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35285 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:39:46 +0000 custard 35285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ kaputnikI was the same. pottered along behind slower cyclists as I just wasnt confident of going past them and staying in front! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35180 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:20:16 +0000 kaputnik 35180@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I rode my old hybrid bike thing from my parents to the Bike Station to donate it a while back and it didn't have clipless. I felt naked on the bike and in fact lost the confidence to take it through city centre traffic and ended up taking a much more circuitous off-road / back street route instead. I think I'm just so used to pulling the pedal through the up stroke that I kept lifting my foot off the pedal and was noticing the decrease in available pedal power. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35177 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:50:53 +0000 wingpig 35177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I tend to mince my shins rather than my calves on pedals. MTB parallelograms with protruding bolt-ends rather than pegs have left more and deeper scars than serrated-edge quills. So far with M545 SPDs I've only scraped and dented without drawing blood. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35176 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:45:01 +0000 steveo 35176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've got flats on both my bikes now. I had shark bites (similar to bear traps) on my old mountain bike after a number of nice shark bite shaped marks on the back of my calf i decided to get parallelogram with pegs style on the mtb this time.</p> <p>Keep meaning to get spds for the roadie but managed to break the set that came with the mtb after only a couple of weeks use with flat platform thing never even got clipped into them... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35166 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:26:56 +0000 Dave 35166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I commented recently that the closest I've come to checking out in Edinburgh was when my foot came off a flat pedal into my front wheel...</p> <p>If you have a clipless pedal that can be ridden in ordinary shoes, like the M424, you get the best of both worlds - ride in ordinary shoes in an emergency.</p> <p>You can get quite acceptable SPD shoes these days (I wear mine around the office and have never had any comments). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35163 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:14:25 +0000 Smudge 35163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't imagine he means flat pedals, they're sort of the opposite of a faff surely? No need for special shoes, no need to clip in/place foot into a clip/cleat, nothing really to wear out except the bearings..?</p> <p>Mmm odyssey bear traps... just need a classic steel rigid forked mtb to bolt them to... and some hideous 80's cycling clothes to go with it :-)) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35160 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:57:01 +0000 Arellcat 35160@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.tay39.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc/beartraps.jpg">Odyssey Bear Traps</a>, one of the nastiest, grippiest old school pedal designs. They made rat traps look like MKS Sylvans.</p> <p>I suspect, though, that custard's flatties were more contemporary. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35155 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:50:34 +0000 Morningsider 35155@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not being funny, but what are bear traps?</p> <p>Do you mean toe clips and straps? If so, then I use them every day as I like to be wearing "normal" shoes when I get to my destination. Why can't you imagine using them day-to-day - you should see the mad (bike related) things I can imagine. On second thoughts, probably best not... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3374#post-35148 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:57:04 +0000 custard 35148@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>how do people cycle with them?<br /> I cycled my new Boardman home(nice bike,shocking halfords service) and didnt bother taking my SPDs to cycle it home.<br /> what a faff they are<br /> anyone here use them regularly? Ive been clipless for many years and couldnt imagine using the bear traps day to day </p>