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Old 12-02-08 | 10:31 AM
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Flimflam
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From: Toronto, ON, Canada

Bikes: 70s Leader Precision w/Shimano 600 (road), IRO Rob Roy (Fixed)

Eggbeater SLs.

They work, they're easy to get into, easy to get out of, and with a grippy soled shoe (ie, not a road shoe) you can still pedal as per platform for those shaky ice patches.

4-sided entry = mash down (knowing where your cleat is) and clip right in without needing ever to look down.

There's not much to them, so there's not much to dislike. They just work(tm).

Yes, I would and have bought them again.

edit: downside I guess would be the lack of platform I guess for when I'm wearing my road shoes - sometimes I'll pre-emptively unclip rolling up to a light, but this is tricky with road shoes on as the lack of grip on the sole means slipping and sliding around, for safetys sake I may as well either clip back in or take my foot off the pedal altogether.

That being said, doing town/city/errands riding with road shoes on is incredibly impractical - I once stopped off at a mall in them and it was lethal just walking on the polished flooring, so perhaps it's more a shoe choice thing than a pedal downside.

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