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Struggled to get my winter bootees over my shoes this a.m., also their zips need wd40
Then because of the bootees I cannot work out getting the cleats into the pedals.
About three miles in I have to stop and check
I have somehow put my summer shoes with the big cleats on
They don’t fit my winter pedals
This is not great
Struggled out to Harperig. Glorious day for the paddle boarders
Back into very slight easterly (had been very slight westerly on the way out)
Could have been worse
If you carried a decent toolkit you could have cable-tied your shoes to the pedals.
after years of wrestling with neoprene overshoes, which never seem to last more than a year, I tried something like these so much easier. Cheap as chips and a million times easier to get over shoes etc... annoyed i wasted so much energy&time on the rubber nonsense things.
What are 'summer shoes'?
Today went back out in fog, put washing up liquid on the neoprene overshoes zips so they worked. Picked the correct shoes with SPD recessed cleats.
Roads a little greasy and the road down to Harperig that had not been gritted a little frosty.
Fog lifted but was colder heading back east. Still chittering.
Summer shoes to me are just the ones with the big cleats that are hard to walk in that really lock you into the pedal.
What are 'summer shoes'?
Fair point. Back in the day I had egg beaters on the MTBs, something on the road bike that make me walk like a penguin and SPDs for spinning classes. Was all far too complicated.
Nice pair of slingbacks.
Do you get 'summer mudguards' and other stuff too? Perhaps those decorative ones made without a lip at the side, or made of cardboard?
Yes summer mudguards are so small they are invisible to the naked eye.
Lincolnshire is very flat
Wingpigs wear shorts all year round but other summer things you can get
Light weight short sleeved summer jersey
Light weight, sleeveless mesh base layer
summer fruit compote from m and S (once they also did a winter fruit compote, I loved that but
Was a fleeting thing and I fear you don’t get the summer fruit one anymore either)
Summer lovin had me a blast
Summer in the city?
Summertime blues (ain’t no cure)
Edinburgh gets between 60 and 80mm of rainfall in almost every month so summer mudguards would just be ordinary mudguards but in a light pastel shade and maybe a floral print?
@iwrats, all Summer Rain falls at midnight. only Bill is out cycling then
It's like when you see people talk about a "winter bike" and it's just a normal bike, but sometimes without a rack. Whilst the shoes I wear year-round are supposedly waterproof they're not winter shoes as they come in a discrete winter version with a neoprene ankle enclosure.
Occasionally you see an article written by someone about white tyres or U-brakes but they usually turn out to be authored by a Californian.
Summer mudguards are those skinny, short ones that ten-speeds used to come with in the early 1980s.
If the cycle to work tax dodge continues manufacturers will create seasonal bicycles.
Carbon bikes dissolve in winter
White bikes get really manky in winter
Salt on the roads more than just the deluge
That's odd. Carbon is notoriously insoluble in the graphite and diamond allotropes. Buckminsterfullerenes are soluble in organic solvents though.
If the cycle to work tax dodge continues
you are just rubbing this in now.
If you are self-employed you sadly cannot take part in Cyclescheme
@IainMcR, if you work through a Ltd company, I think the company can buy the bike - a friend has funded his road bike habit in that way and it was a company asset.
If you got a company logo on the bike, it could be part of the Iain Mcr ltd advertising budget. Also would be very distinctive/less attractive to thieves.
@paddyirish - sadly a sole trader.
Ok, not dissolve it unravels
Thanks to all for the corrections, clarifications and errata.
@Iain McR
You are doing the sole trader thing wrong if you need HMRC to top up your bike budget.
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