I agree...eggbeaters all the way. I think that even though they are technically MTB pedals, they perfectly complement the slim, sleek, and spare look of tracks and fixes. I just hope I don't get laughed at when I ride the velodrome with knobby MTB sidi shoes. Not to mention that they are the best clipless i've ever tried. 4-Way entrance is unbeatable, they are really easy out but without a really tight and confining connection when you are clipped in, semi-adjustable (2way, not universal) float, an amazing feeling of contact point, and it's a personal thing, but I really like the way they don't have that trademark clipless *CLICK* when you go in or out of them. The sound of that just reminds me of bourgeois (but then again who is more bourgeois than a group of fix riders?) road bikers on overpriced and underridden frame. The drive train of a track bike doesnt groan and click like a road bike, so why should the pedals? If you are going to build a museum piece that must be 100% authenic NOS parts on a Frejus frame or something, then sure, get some old steel rattraps to round out the ensemble. But if you want to ride, and you ride every day as a matter of necessity, you want to ride on the best performing stuff. Clipless, namely 'beaters, outperform for me every time

How many clip out on the down hill and place thier feet over the rear tire?

Is that a No-No?

I was chatised last night a little for it.

Rear tire? how? Ive put them over the front, on the downtube.
I cant even picture where to put them over the rear.

Oh, and I ride both ways( ) clipless during the week, clips and straps on weekends. I dont notice too much of a difference in the level of connectivity with the bike.

Do you do that to slow down? If not, wouldn't scooting forward and sitting on the top tube with one thigh more suitable? See the end of the NYC drag race at www.digave.com

Edit: Actually the guy propped his feet on the downtube.

Ok, slap my wrist...I'm a lazy bastard. Sorry folks.

God it's been so long since I've ridden with clips and straps. I had a pair of the old Look pedals from back in the day when Greg Lemond first used them in the tour. I feel completely disconnected from the bike when I use toe clips on my vintage ride. Kind of like being in a fast car without a seatbelt. Don't even get me started on flat pedals.
It makes me feel like I'm just going to fly off the bike.

So tried them some more today. Still felt not right. Put my old trusted clips and straps back on and - Oh my god - how nice that felt. Returned those evil candies and the evil shoes to the hell they came from. Ah that felt good! Searched the web. Found some old duegis on nashbar. Stiff sole and made for CLIPS! Very happy! Life is good and clipless pedals suck a big one (I can say this now since I tried them) !

This thread should be recognized in this year's batty's. I mean how f-ing strange! Lonely?! For f---k's sake!

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the mondays...awwww

"My back is hunched, traps tightening around my neck. My knuckles are tight, white to the point you could see through my hands. I am bogged down beyond any motion in any direction. The stress builds up between each vertebrae; each ounce pushing the one before it is close to snapping. I am ready to snap crackle and pop. And then it goes. Traffic floods forward like blood from a jugular. At a rapid, desperate pace. It rushes forth with its various cargoes. I am in the midst of all this elegant violence standing on an island of steel. Not really even an island - more like a sliver."

I always get a little sentimental when reading prose of that caliber. You are such a good writer [165]!

wow-thanks! I have been a bit distracted with school and hating my job lately. All I do now is expository lab write ups and seethe over my lack of career. But hate is a needed ingredient in my writing, either as catalyst or subject.
Thanks for checking out the blog and sifting through the underwritten ideas that currently peppers it.

"I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man."

you tell them that you live in William's world and their hands aren't stamped.