Originally Posted by A.Winthrop

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To protect the toe and laces from the clip, I cut a piece
of old inner tube just long enough to cover the laces, with
a flap that extended under the forward lace and down
toward the toe. I punched two holes at the top end of the
cover, through which I threaded the second set of laces
down from where I tie them. ...
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Oops, I forgot to say the inner tube is slit along a seem
longways, making a typical road tube just wide enough to
cover the laces and then some. ...

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