Originally Posted by
Dolanarc1
Almost without a doubt, shoe's and their set up.
I'm surprised that in this over 50 group no-one remembers. But back in the day when we used straps and toe clips all of my coaches would not allow us to nail on our shoe cleets until we had ridden over 500m. This developed the grove and angle to show where the show plate would line up.
I remember many a Jr that tried to cheat. Then all of a sudden he'd get knee pain. The coach would look and see new shoe's. Then as they said back then
'The **** would hit the fan"
Yes, indeed. In 1965, I took my new shoes and cleats to the shoe repairman around the corner from the bike shop and told him to nail the cleats on so my feet would be pointing straight ahead. He started to say something, stopped, and said, "OK." When I picked up the shoes, he said, "See you next week." Wrong! I was back 2 days later.