Mountain Biking - sidi shoes and broken foot

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longrider
10-19-03, 11:07 AM
Has anyone else suffered broken foot bones under the sidi buckle from impacts with roots rocks or trees? I used to enjoy wearing my sidi shoes but I think I'll return to lace or velcro closure systems when I start riding again and save the sidi for road.

Jim311
10-19-03, 07:47 PM
Whoa... I'd like to know more about this. How could it possibly break your foot?!! I want a pair of SIDIs but if it's going to break my foot I'll wear something else :p
BAC5.2
10-19-03, 07:59 PM
The buckles don't give. So if you smash your foot on a tree (which has happened to me a number of times), the buckles smash into your foot.

I don't wear clipless, so I don't have a preference.

Kev
10-19-03, 09:42 PM
I would say if you had a hard enough impact for a plastic bucke to brake a bone in you're foot it probably would have broken even if the buckle was not there.
And considering a majority of the bucke is on the side of the shoe you're foot must have hit at a pretty odd angle.
BAC5.2
10-19-03, 10:47 PM
A fallen tree, kinda small, lining the trail. On the down stroke around a turn, your foot can get wedged in by accident. That happened to me once. Kinda wet out, going around a turn, back slid out a bit. Wedged my foot inbetween my pedal and the log. If I was clipped in (I was on platforms), I would have broken my foot. Instead, one of the ridges on my shoe caught on a bump on the log and pulled my foot off the pedal. Hurt like hell, but didn't break anything.