in praise of Specialized

[iLB]

Roughly two weeks ago now I decided to put some new cleats on my s-works shoes ready to start racing this weekend. In the process, and too my horror, I discovered extensive cracking of the carbon fibre around the cleat on the left shoe

Luckily though they were still (just about) inside the warranty period, so I posted them down from Sheffield to south London so Dad could take them back to the shop - but still fairly worried that the shop would have none of it...

but luckily Specialized were happy to replace them under warranty

so I got a parcel today, with shiny things in it... happy days

 

[Melvil]

Nice one! Good when they do that. A mate of mine had a specialized helmet and broke it by headbutting a tree when he came off a bike at speed. He sent the helmet back and they gave him a top of the range one for free (I think they used the old one for research). My mate was dead chuffed.

 

[Maz]

What are those wheel things on the side of the shoe?

 

[iLB]

they're the 'Boa' system, twist one way to tighten up the (stainless steel) laces and the other way to loosen them, extremely comfortable