Old 10-19-04, 03:07 PM
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bradw
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Originally Posted by jcwitte
When resting my feet in their normal relaxed position, my left toes point to about 11:58 and my right toes point to about 12:45. Anyway, I found a website called chiroweb.com that said...
12:45?? Yikes that must hurt!

Or do you mean something like 12:05?

I'm kinda "duck footed". I too had a lot of trouble riding with standard cranks and pedals, and didn't notice any relief until I got a bike with a newer MTB crankset. It has a wider Q-factor than older MTB and standard road cranks.

I feel much better now.

If you want to increase the q-factor on your current crank, here are a couple different places offering pedal extensions (knee savers):

http://www.hostelshoppe.com/cgi-bin/...sory=983909612

http://www.thethirdhand.com/index.cg...=754175312557)
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