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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway
View Poll Results: How tight are your shoe straps or buckles?
Loose
5
6.33%
Tight as i can get it
24
30.38%
barely snug
46
58.23%
i bike in bare feet
4
5.06%
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Old 04-24-07 | 03:06 PM
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how tight?
How tight do you pull your straps or buckle on your shoes?
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Old 04-24-07 | 03:24 PM
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Old 04-24-07 | 03:25 PM
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My lower straps (velcro) get adjusted seasonally. The main ratchet gets snugged pretty good and re-adjusted later in the ride.
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Old 04-24-07 | 03:28 PM
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Fairly loose so that my feet don't get squished.
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Old 04-24-07 | 03:47 PM
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In between "Tight" and "Barely snug." So, snug.
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Old 04-24-07 | 04:14 PM
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Looser when it's cold out.
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Old 04-24-07 | 07:26 PM
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The top one is very tight. The one near my toes is looser. If the low one's tight my toesies suffer.
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Old 04-24-07 | 07:50 PM
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+1. Pretty loose, especially near the toes.
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Old 04-24-07 | 07:51 PM
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My feet are long and super narrow, so no bike shoe has ever fit me. Hence it needs to be tightened fully
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Old 04-24-07 | 07:54 PM
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