If you couldn't have clipless pedals...

[SuperHans123]

Flats all the way. Fcuk those death traps.

 

[SuperHans123]

I'd be so distraught, I'd go and buy a new car, and drive everywhere, rather than ride. NO CLIPLESS NO RIDE, them's the rules.

Them's YOUR rules.

 

[HLaB]

Flats all the way. Fcuk those death traps.

Each to our own but I feel safer in clips

 

[FishFright]

Flats and discover IT MAKES NO DIFFERNCE like it did for me when I switched to clipless and back to flats over the last few years on my road bike.

Wow Capitals, that's me convinced . Beats science every time now we are in the post sense world.

Served with portions of sarcasm and irony, served in a hyper bole


Back on topic . Ive tried to swap back to clips and straps on my singlespeed but between being out of practice with them and the terrible toe overlap (wrong size clip) I gave up on them for now at least.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'd use magnets in the pedal and shoe to hold them together with a suitable resistance.

 

[swansonj]

Yet 98% of road bike cyclists use them (give or take).

I think that, to make that statistic true, you may possibly be using "road bike" to mean, not "road bike", but "the subset of road bikes that are ersatz racing bikes but are presented by cycling magazines as so normative that most of their users suppress the awareness that there are other sorts of road bikes"?

 

[Racing roadkill]

Them's YOUR rules.

Like I said.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Flats all the way. Fcuk those death traps.

Have you tried.......

Oh never mind.

 

[Racing roadkill]

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Bolt the shoes to your pedals like Graeme Obree did for his Hour record on the 27 April 1994.

Now that's a good idea. Graeme is a top bloke, calls a spade a spade, gets on with it, holds 'heretical' opinions about certain aspects of cycling, doesn't care.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Now that's a good idea. Graeme is a top bloke, calls a spade a spade, gets on with it, holds 'heretical' opinions about certain aspects of cycling, doesn't care.

I first saw that in 1970 when the Aussie track sprinter Gordon Johnston used them at the Leicester World Championships. It created quite a stir at the time.

 

[SuperHans123]

Have you tried.......

Oh never mind.

Yep, twice.
Didn't fall off but as I have BLOBBYFOOT' and prefer the middle of my foot in the middle of the pedal, I always had leg pain.
Also, I really like making little micro adjustments with my feet...clipless...unlucky, here you stay pal.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Why not have the best of both worlds with Pyro Platforms - use ordinary trainers or shoes with a clip in pedal