lulubel
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- Malaga, Spain
Some people will probably laugh (or roll their eyes) at this question after the comments I've posted before regarding the evilness of clipless pedals. So, get that out of the way, if you need to, before you read on
I've been practicing some of the techniques in Lee and Brian's "bible", and have managed to get the front wheel off the ground a bit (being a girl, I wasn't doing wheelies as a kid, so this is new to me). But I'm very nervous about loading and unloading the rear wheel to lift it because I'm not confident that my feet will still be in the best position on my flat pedals afterwards - or even on the pedals at all. After some considerable time today spent daydreaming about riding my new bike (yes, I will be able to keep that up every day until it arrives), which I've bought in a suitably small and chuckable size, I wonder if I should go clipless.
My reasons for not wanting to go clipless on my road bike (and the reasons why they don't apply on the MTB) are:
I like to move my feet around on the roadie - would rather they don't keep moving around on the MTB
I'm nervous about the lack of grip between hard, plastic sole and slippy tarmac - there's no slippy tarmac up the mountains
I like wearing sandals on the roadie in summer - I prefer closed shoes for off-road because my sandals get full of grit and dust (yep, I've tried it)
I don't want to forget to unclip, fall off and hurt myself/look like an idiot - I already have a tendency to fall off the MTB, and if I'm clipless I can at least use forgetting to unclip as an excuse
It seems pretty mixed around here. Some people ride clipless, others ride flats.
What do you prefer?
I've been practicing some of the techniques in Lee and Brian's "bible", and have managed to get the front wheel off the ground a bit (being a girl, I wasn't doing wheelies as a kid, so this is new to me). But I'm very nervous about loading and unloading the rear wheel to lift it because I'm not confident that my feet will still be in the best position on my flat pedals afterwards - or even on the pedals at all. After some considerable time today spent daydreaming about riding my new bike (yes, I will be able to keep that up every day until it arrives), which I've bought in a suitably small and chuckable size, I wonder if I should go clipless.
My reasons for not wanting to go clipless on my road bike (and the reasons why they don't apply on the MTB) are:
I like to move my feet around on the roadie - would rather they don't keep moving around on the MTB
I'm nervous about the lack of grip between hard, plastic sole and slippy tarmac - there's no slippy tarmac up the mountains
I like wearing sandals on the roadie in summer - I prefer closed shoes for off-road because my sandals get full of grit and dust (yep, I've tried it)
I don't want to forget to unclip, fall off and hurt myself/look like an idiot - I already have a tendency to fall off the MTB, and if I'm clipless I can at least use forgetting to unclip as an excuse
It seems pretty mixed around here. Some people ride clipless, others ride flats.
What do you prefer?