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10-09-14 | 08:31 AM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by acidfast7

1500 miles or so. I'm not about to lug a second pair of shoes around for an issue that happens once per year at most.

You've been riding for about 4 years now and only have 1500 miles? Or is that just 1500 miles this year? And you said "I don't have slippage issues between 20 and 130 rpm" so have you had slippage issues "once a year" or never? I've slipped off a pair of platforms once and that was enough to convince me not to repeat the experience.

And you don't have to "lug a second pair of shoes around". You leave a pair of shoes at work and wear the bike shoes when you are riding. If you go to dinner or a pub or so other function you wear the bike shoes, no one really looks at your shoes anyway. I've attended all kinds of meetings in bike shoes. I've been to all kinds of restaurants in bike shoes. No one ever said a thing about them.

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