how do people cycle with them?
I cycled my new Boardman home(nice bike,shocking halfords service) and didnt bother taking my SPDs to cycle it home.
what a faff they are
anyone here use them regularly? Ive been clipless for many years and couldnt imagine using the bear traps day to day
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bear traps!
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Posted 12 years ago #
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I'm not being funny, but what are bear traps?
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...
Posted 12 years ago # -
Odyssey Bear Traps, one of the nastiest, grippiest old school pedal designs. They made rat traps look like MKS Sylvans.
I suspect, though, that custard's flatties were more contemporary.
Posted 12 years ago # -
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..?
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 :-))
Posted 12 years ago # -
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...
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.
You can get quite acceptable SPD shoes these days (I wear mine around the office and have never had any comments).
Posted 12 years ago # -
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.
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...
Posted 12 years ago # -
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.
Posted 12 years ago # -
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.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@ kaputnikI was the same. pottered along behind slower cyclists as I just wasnt confident of going past them and staying in front!
Posted 12 years ago #
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