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07-30-12 | 11:20 PM

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rekmeyata

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Originally Posted by cyclotoine

I get several years out of a pair of shoes and their laces.

Does anyone here really think that a professional racer used a pair of leather straps for more than a season and for that matter they they didn't go through several a season?

Stupid? Come on!

I have ridden leather straps, they are the same today as they were 40 years ago. Yes... for DAILY use I might get a year out a set and then they are beat and dry and thin. Time to replace.

When I use to race (Cat 3 is as high as I ever got) the straps did not last as long, but the laminated ones would last at least 3 years under those conditions and then I replaced them so I wouldn't have to worry about them breaking in race. The true leather straps if I recall correctly only lasted maybe a season.

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