Toe Clip Straps - Anything to look out for?

[wiggydiggy]

Assume I want/need to stay with toe clips and straps, is there anything I should look out for in toe straps?

I've worn the pair through the bike came with in 500 miles or so, nylon straps seem to be £4-5 which seem what I need. (example http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/nylon-toe-straps-black-prod825/)

Anything I should look out for / change?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Anyone

 

[Bman]

I dont know I'm afraid. As soon as I got used to my straps and they started fraying, I went clipless.

SPD's if you're interested.

 

[YahudaMoon]

No idea,

I purchased some kit from the Velodrome Shop last week and they had a big range. Ain't MKS and the other Japanese kit good stuff ?

http://www.velodromeshop.net/index.php?p=catalog&parent=34&pg=1

Some nice Italian leather Cinelli straps for £50 lol

 

[wiggydiggy]

Cheers bud, I thought I may be over thinking it so Ill just the cheapest but those leather ones do look good though!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Theres a selection of straps on this page, personally I prefer leather to nylon.

http://www.velosolo.co.uk/shoppedal.html

 

[Davidc]

I use clips and straps most of the time, and always use leather. Tried nylon and another substitute but neither worked as well.

SJS do (or did) some good ones.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I have decided upon leather to be fair as like you say its sturdier, cheers for the links there's some nice pedals on there.

 

[tyred]

Definitely has to be leather. It lasts longer and has the advatage of keeping it's shape and is therefore easy to get into.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Definitely has to be leather. It lasts longer and has the advatage of keeping it's shape and is therefore easy to get into.

I've ordered the 'basic leather straps' from them but in a month or three when £££'s allow I can see myself getting some of their pedals too, very nice

 

[wiggydiggy]

Ordered Tues evening, arrived today

Little shorter than the outgoing nylon ones but still seem to fit well. Also the receipt had a handwritten 'Many thanks wiggy*, Jo' which was nice. Think I will upgrade my ugly metal/plastic pedal/clip combo to something off their site

*They actually used my real name though lol

 

[YahudaMoon]

Its always nice to get a hand written thank you receipt

Something you will never get from the big chain stores. Maybe a bag of jelly babies lol. Cop out

 

[Gary E]

Anything I should look out for / change?

The main thing that you should be looking out for is..................The floor rushing up at you really quickly!!!

 

[bicyclos]

Junk-em they are soooo last week. I used to wear them in the 1970's and did't like em then. You can get through a good few 1000 miles on spd's and the ilk. I can't believe they are still in use.They are akin to a betamax video recorder.

 

[snorri]

When the nylon straps on my pedals wore through they fell of and I just kept on cycling, that was thousands of miles ago, the plastic clippy thing is enough to keep my feet in place without straps.