Different kind of clipless moment

[ttcycle]

Ouch Gaz- nasty!!!

 

[palinurus]

Aye, he's a pain.

Squirts of GT85 and use of a watchmakers screwdriver from a Christmas Cracker to wiggle out the debris works after a few minutes.

We had crap christmas crackers this year. I'm f***ed.

 

[palinurus]

Unless you can get them out with a plastic samurai.

 

[fossyant]

Try pulling you foot out on a fixed..... my SPD cleat wore early for some reason... hence me bobbing up and down at over 20 mph from anl acceleration in traffic...argh..comedy moment......

Eventually changed the cleat - never happened again.... Might be the reason I didn't crash at the CC track meet when my foot kept coming unclipped on the 250m sprint.

 

[Tynan]

plastic cleats?

dear god

 

[BentMikey]

plastic cleats?

dear god

Well they're a lot better than SPDs when it comes to generating large forces and them not coming out unexpectedly. OTOH SPD types have their own advantages.

 

[BentMikey]

Try pulling you foot out on a fixed..... my SPD cleat wore early for some reason... hence me bobbing up and down at over 20 mph from anl acceleration in traffic...argh..comedy moment......

I just laughed so hard I did a little wee!!

 

[gaz]

plastic cleats?

dear god

yeah.. i'll take them any day over the little spd's. Look, time and SPD-SL all run with plastic cleats.. nothing wrong with them.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I pulled my foot out a few weeks ago, on my fixed using toe clips and straps. Coming back from the club run climbing hard up one of the hills on the Fosse Way and managed to pull my foot right out, huge wobble, almost hit the crown jewels on the cross bar but managed to stay on it, just. I normally set the straps a just touch loose, so I can get my feet out without messing with them, but so I can still pull up on them, on this occasion I must have tried to pull up with the toe pointing down instead of up.