Yep. Not a real flash one but it does the basics.

Odin, taking it steady early sounds like a good plan, but not too slow. And remember that most blow-ups are in the mind. So take the pain, soldier. Take the pain.

Make pain your friend!!!! :mad:





Who needs friends??? :D

Hey guys I need a little help with pedals. Again crappy plastic pedals have failed me badly, and finding a decent pedal toe clip for me is exceedingly difficult -not everyone must ride clipless.
Looking at a couple of options:
1. EbayShimano pedals and toe clips Looks like vintage hunters want these pedals though. Used kinda scares me to put on a bike Ill be riding everyday.

2. Something I found on performance bike Winwood Instep Pedals and buying a set of Look Pedals. A few reservations though, will these actually work and be comfortable?

I dont want to go fully clipless as of yet because Ill look like a tool at uni taking the cycling shoes off to put thongs on. (not that I ride in thongs)

Thanks for your help on a stupid and mundane topic

There are no stupid and mundane topics here, just discussion.
Mate, bite the bullit and go clipless but go SPD and you can walk in the shoes. Look for something like these;
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-240-GRAM-SUP...QQcmdZViewItem
I have them on my commutor and they are great. Easy to get in and out of and as I said, you can walk in the shoes which come in many different styles including joggers or even sandles.

in my noobness I take it SPD are the mountainbike style clips/shoes?

I thinkk your right I talked/looked at a couple of LBS's this morning and they have no decent/reasonable toeclip pedals, just cheap stuff.

I had a look at cleats/shoes in Hadleys (where Expat used to work) helpful, and cleats seem to be the way to go. Although I would take a pair of thongs with me and put the shoes in me bag

+1
Yep, I'll go along with berny on the SPD. I've got something similar to these for my MTB commuter, and I sometimes wear 'em all day at work... very comfy.

http://www.deanwoods.com.au/store/im...m_mtb_fn20.jpg





...and I always thought I was allergic to it ;)

just to higlight a previous question whats SPD?

I think it's 'Shimano Pedaling Dynamics'

better to buy the pedals off ebay and the shoes at a LBS?

EDIT: also whats float? I take its an amount of freeplay allowed either up and and down or side to side

A little bit of sideways movement to help align the foot with the pedal designed to keep knee stress to a minimum.

Float is a wan kerism introduced by triathletes who didn't know how to set up their cleats properly. Now just about everybody uses cleats with float 'to save their knees' when what they really need is a pair of black cleats and 30 minutes of patient (and correct) fitting.

Anyways, I have two pedal solutions for you:

No name brand pedals with plastic clips and leather toestraps - cost $0.00. Two sets of slotted cleats thrown in as well.

Or

Almost brand new look pedals (black) from my race bike, done <1000km. $160RRP, yours for $80 if you want them. Let pedal has a nice 1cm gouge where I clipped it in a race two weeks ago. Right pedal has scratches on the side from bike being blown over (twice). Nice pedals, but I'm standardising on one model (VP-R70 for those playing at home) across all my bikes. I might have a set of red cleats (float) lying around somewhere that I can throw in as well.

aaargghh the bloke at hadleys (correct me if im wrong) said look cleats wont fit the recessed cleat style shoe which is going to p*ss me off having to change footwear everywhere I go.

But I get your idea either I can go for bad platform pedals or something decent. Mate if Im wrong about the pedals I will seriously consider buying them off ya

You don't need correctin'. If you wanna walk around like a normal human bean then steer clear of anything remotely like a slotted or Look style cleat.

And for ease of use, stick to one pedal, one cleat system, one shoe across everything.

So I take it for my use if I stick with the SPD system I should be fine?
Even if I buy a different brand of shoes and pedals if they are SPD compatible everything should be groovy?

I have a lot to learn

Yep. Should be.

Eastern hillclimb report.
Worked out really well. I managed to keep the pace under control from the start (held it at 19km/h) and slowly wound it up to 22km/h over the line which ended up a PB by a whole bloody minute.
I've always struggled in the last 2 K's on this hill but keeping the start speed down made a massive difference near the end. I'm usually going over the line at 15-16 km/h.
Just got to drop some more weight and I'll be flying up it. I've had a goal for this hill for a couple of years of sub 20 mins and todays 20:30? (haven't seen the official times yet, just the Cateye) has got me pretty close.
Thanks fellas... felt the pain and just kept going :D

Where did you place?

Not sure. I couldn't hang around much afterwards and they were doing presentations after the barbie/beer.
If they don't email the results tonight, I'll find out tomorrow at the crits.

Kotter, Hadley's has the Shimano SPD thongs. Problem solved. :D

No offense to Jock and his love of Look pedals, but you should stick with SPD. They'll suit your needs better. And you can get the SPD compatible shoes that look like a skate shoe. The sole is stiff enough to be efficient, yet compliant enough to allow you to walk in them.

Nah I will stick with cycling in shoes, this is the point where I do a crap load of reading about the different pedals.

Sh¡t, does that mean I'll have to pull my finger out and actually start training for something now?

Bugger.

How hard do you's recon the 50 would be for me? I can borrow a real nice ride from B&S. :D

Howd yu go last nite Jock? :rolleyes:

dunno Berny, do you MTB much? It'll be a few hours riding, maybe 4 hours at 15 kp/h is reasonably good going.