I know what I'm getting for my birthday!

[dellzeqq]

Yessirree!

(It's not for another five weeks, but the joyful anticipation is all the better for the time spent joyfully anticipating).

 

[longers]

Is it a refund on your Brompton?

 

[dellzeqq]

Is it a refund on your Brompton?

very good, longers! Very good!

No, it (or rather they) are items of footwear. Of the most deliciously decadent nature.

 

[oxbob]

very good, longers! Very good!

No, it (or rather they) are items of footwear. Of the most deliciously decadent nature.

not them spd italian made leather brogues?

 

[accountantpete]

Gary Glitter's platform boots perhaps?

 

[dellzeqq]

not them spd italian made leather brogues?

I'd thought about that, but then Mephistopheles, in the shape of Brixton Cycles' finest saleschappy, showed me a pair of white Sidis with yellow flashes on the side and four (as in 4) different means of fastening and adjusting the width, including a device on the heel for those mountaintop sprint finishes!

Now, none of this would have happened if the Babe had not hijacked my little shopping trip (for chain lubricant) by insisting on having a pair of superdelicious cycling shoes for herself, and then suggesting that I try on a pair. As she sowed, so she reaped! Hah! Game set and match to the old codger!

All I need now is for a team manager in the regulation Skoda to ride along side me making heel tension adjustments

 

[Noodley]

An all-in-one heated slipper would have been better as a choice of footwear.

 

[Joe24]

Can i just ask a question.
WTF is the point in all that? Are you really going to benefit from it? Or do you just like to think you will benefit? or do you just want to go around telling people about your shoes, so they can orgasm in the grace of being near them?
Seriously.
Shoes with tensioners for mountaintop finishes ****ing hell. What is the point, are you really in need of them? Are you going to get full benefit from them?
And, while your pissing about with the tension of your heel, the other people will have gone off and left you to tart about with your shoes!
I doubt you will even fricking answer this because im on your ignore list, and even if you do see it, you will just blank it.

All this equipment to ride a Brompton around and complain about the shitty ride

 

[iLB]

and a bargain at that price

but you do more than enough cycling to warrant having them

 

[MacB]

Can i just ask a question.
WTF is the point in all that? Are you really going to benefit from it? Or do you just like to think you will benefit? or do you just want to go around telling people about your shoes, so they can orgasm in the grace of being near them?
Seriously.
Shoes with tensioners for mountaintop finishes ****ing hell. What is the point, are you really in need of them? Are you going to get full benefit from them?
And, while your pissing about with the tension of your heel, the other people will have gone off and left you to tart about with your shoes!
I doubt you will even fricking answer this because im on your ignore list, and even if you do see it, you will just blank it.

All this equipment to ride a Brompton around and complain about the shitty ride

Ah, a jealous child speaks, he's got the skills to do those shoes justice but hasn't got the dosh. But an old codger like Dell has the dosh and clearly can't cycle for toffee...........life's so unfair

 

[dellzeqq]

indeed - but I think these shoes will be keeping company with the C50 rather than the Brompton, Josephine! Think on, dear boy, think on!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I thought you were going to say it's a bus pass!

 

[dellzeqq]

I thought you were going to say it's a bus pass!

another five years...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

At 55 you qualify for sheltered housing so it's not all bad!

 

[Joe24]

indeed - but I think these shoes will be keeping company with the C50 rather than the Brompton, Josephine! Think on, dear boy, think on!

I can just imagine you going along in a group and saying "woah hang on guys, i just need to put my shoes into hill mode"*fiddles around with strap* "ok lets go........ NO NO NO WAIT, not right, hang on" *fiddles back around with shoes* "Ok we can go now"
And doing that at every hill/flat bit/sprint
Dellzeqqy, you will be faster with normal shoes. Are you really going to gain from these shoes? I doubt it, all the rachets are adding on weight to your shoes!!