Little birdie in the sky
What's that you dropped in my eye?
I don't mind. I don't cry.
I'm just glad cows don't fly!

I hork loogies all over the place...gotta get the stuff out!

Fenders, for me, are overrated. I use 'em in the winter to combat the slush/grit combo, but in all other seasons in CO they are just a pain.

[QUOTE=flipflop563;6665043]Its not that you don't engage your hamstring, its just that you don't engage it enough to lift it off the pedal - there will always be a little bit of downward pressure, even with an experiened cyclist wearing clips.

As other people have mentioned, clips do have a real function in keeping your foot fixed to the pedal, which some people find more useful than others.

I always catch this one light at about the halfway point of my ride in. When it's cool out, my tanks get full. So, I casually roll over the light sensor and drift over to the curb (grassy median that sticks out past the stop line), put a foot down, lean over and give both barrels a good honk onto the grass. I figure that stuff is pretty top notch grub to some of the little beasties crawling around.

Bon appetit!

Exactly.

LOL, if that scares them away they don't belong on the world wide interweb.

Like I said, i know lots of people do it... i just think it's nasty.
I exercise control over my bodily fluids.
I also don't open my car door to dump this morning's leftover coffee or cigarette ashes. I have more respect for public property and a bit more couth than that.
Then again, I don't have an excess of fluids either so maybe I should have more sympathy for those that have bodies that leak uncontrollably. My bad.

Furious even...
Nah, I guess I don't care either way, it will get washed away eventually or dry up. When we skate in town we always have to deal with bird crap on various obstacles.
I always blow my nose once I arrive at work in the morning and when I get home.

Either that or you need tree pollen allergies. That and living in Houston I seriously doubt you have the opportunity to ride at seriously cold temps. Noses run like rivers when it is cold out.

Yeah, the temps only get down to around 30 here.
I did grow up in upstate ny though.

But houston is one of the worse cities for allergies. The running joke is that if you move here and don't have allergies.... you soon will!

I definitely prefer platforms over any kind of pedal. A lot simpler, easier, and a hell of a lot cheaper.

Seriously? It didn't even occur to me that this could possibly bother anyone.

Now I have to change my stance on the matter from "didn't know" to "don't care."

Get real! How can you survive in a world of sniveling dogs and other uncouth creatures? It isn't like he took a dump by the raod side. A little mucus, come on....

Never really had any issues with bodily fluids, mine or others. And after having little kids, you pretty much get them all, often on the same day. So it's no big deal. But perhaps I'm not as sensitive as others.

I have a terrible stomach and.... well... lets leave it up to your imagination. Nothing grosses me out with bodily fluids.
Especially after raising my son.

Oh wait....
When my knee was torn open I refused to look at it even though I couldn't feel it. The oozing and what not was enough for me.

Arghhh...

Guess what?
There's about a 100 million little creatures living off of your body, right now.
Microscopic mites pinching their tiny mandibles together, munching on your sloughing skin cells; minuscule wormlike creatures slithering thru your eyelashes, lapping up your eye boogers; and then, of course, there's the wild menagerie of single celled cooties collecting their wages by hanging out in your slimy insides.

Take a chill. It's only snot.

I try to save my snot rockets for cars that pass too close. I like my strapless $4 REI MtB toeclips. good enough to hold my feet in but easy in/out.