Do you have washers on under the allen heads? I usually try to make sure I put those on to help support the clip.

i'm going back to MKS.

Anyone seen any steel gold clips?

and yes, washers underneath.

+1 Christophes if you can find them. I've seen some that were covered in rust and were still plenty strong.

i know a guy who gold plated a trash can in a park somewhere in SF as an art project. it's still there.

sounds like ****ty art

Once I rule the world I'll have public hangings for artist like that!

while youre at it, will you please bring the diamond market to its knees?

and the junk trash bikes locked to poles and forgotten and disassembled, all painted in silver rustoleum. those are funny.

totally. they are way strong. seen some with leather covers stitched on so they don't chew up shoes. mine have been going good for the 5 years i've had them, and they are from the 70s... so thats what, 35 years strong? trustable. (i know, flawed logic, but still)

i think its flawed diction too

do tell.

trustable is in no dictionary of mine.

trustable, not a word. or, an invented word, but it does get the point across. "to be trusted" would be a better choice of words. point for you! thanks!

diction, though, relates to word choice and enunciation, not to the use of made up words. if we are claiming that this word is not really a word, which, in fact is true (as conceded above) then diction wouldn't apply as diction only relates to the use of actual words. aha, point for me.

we both win.

i'll let you collect the facepunch prize :)

facepunch? dictionary? ;)

Don't worry!

Once I rule the world I'll have public hangings for words that are not in the dictionaries too.

man, such violence over simple linguistics...

clipless is for *****es

real men don't ninny biking shoes

on a serious note maybe you stepped on them one too many times and then the metal fatigued

If we kill the offending word no one will be able to use it anymore,so we all will be able to write properly.

All will be well and all it takes is a little violence.

i also find it odd that the pressure was on the clip and not the strap
maybe the straps should be tighter

i snapped one of my blue toeclips right when i left my apt. last night too. had to throw on one of my old rusted beat up steel ones :/

..Hmmmm, why not use "powergrips"..? As good if not better in the functionality department, won't break, rust or make nasty scraping sounds.

^ she's gonna laugh at you

And you can rivet them to the bear trap pedals without feeling like you are defacing anything.

I know generally speaking fashion > utility, but for the love of fscking christ almighty, can we all please agree to use clipless? We've amalgamated ugly cycling caps and tacky wool jerseys into our fashion vocabulary, why not cycling shoes?

Interestingly, my sidi dominators were mistaken for la coste shoes at a hip shoe store in LA.

I'm one of those boring 'utility cyclists' sometimes. I like shoes I can walk around like a normal human in. Is that too much to ask?

Clips have their place. Most of the time I cycle for transportation, then I use clips, and wear whatever shoes make sense for wherever I'm going/whatever I'm doing.

If I'm just riding to ride I switch to clipless. It takes less time to swap pedals than it does to lace up a pair of combat boots.

My receeded cleats are non issue for walking, the shoe flexes a little, and they are quite good looking for being the cheapest shimano shoe in the store.

i ran a ******** 5k in my dominators the other day.

just ******** do it.