Shoes.

dave said:

OK SO now that Kathy has her new bike 🙂 And remembering its her first
road bike AND of course over budget.

We are going to put it on the trainer till she susses the gears.. Well
at least till she knows where they are..

So what she needs now is shoes 🙂 Anyone got some good sources
for cheap road shoes? Somewhere in the east would be good.

not east Im afraid, but UNO in (is it?) ormond Rd, elwood has some goodies.
or Cecil Walker's shoe/pedal packages aint bad

flyingdutch said:

not east Im afraid, but UNO in (is it?) ormond Rd, elwood has some goodies.
or Cecil Walker's shoe/pedal packages aint bad

UNO , Glenhuntley Rd, Elwood, 'tween Beach Rd/Barkley & Roundabout
or UNO at Nepean Hway Chelsea/ Just across Patterson Riv ( both 7 days and late).😄

rooman said:

UNO , Glenhuntley Rd, Elwood, 'tween Beach Rd/Barkley & Roundabout
or UNO at Nepean Hway Chelsea/ Just across Patterson Riv ( both 7 days and late).😄

E-bay for smaller sizes theyre usually cheap, like $20 NOS cheap.

trek-man said:

rooman said:

UNO , Glenhuntley Rd, Elwood, 'tween Beach Rd/Barkley & Roundabout
or UNO at Nepean Hway Chelsea/ Just across Patterson Riv ( both 7 days
and late).😄

E-bay for smaller sizes theyre usually cheap, like $20 NOS cheap.

Hmmmm

How to ask what size feet she has?

dave said:

Hmmmm
How to ask what size feet she has?

"What size feet do you have?" should do the trick 😉

hippy a.k.a. annoying prat being punished with karmic rain rain rain..

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trek-man said:

rooman said:

UNO , Glenhuntley Rd, Elwood, 'tween Beach Rd/Barkley & Roundabout
or UNO at Nepean Hway Chelsea/ Just across Patterson Riv ( both 7 days
and late).😄

E-bay for smaller sizes theyre usually cheap, like $20 NOS cheap.

Hmmmm

How to ask what size feet she has?

?? Why not just ask??

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Sara Kirk said:

In article <[email hidden]>, dave

Quoted message said:

trek-man said:

rooman Wrote:

>UNO , Glenhuntley Rd, Elwood, 'tween Beach Rd/Barkley & Roundabout
>or UNO at Nepean Hway Chelsea/ Just across Patterson Riv ( both 7 days
>and late).😄

E-bay for smaller sizes theyre usually cheap, like $20 NOS cheap.

Hmmmm

How to ask what size feet she has?

?? Why not just ask??

Oh I,d just ask YOU 🙂

quote='dave'trek-man said:

rooman said:

UNO , Glenhuntley Rd, Elwood, 'tween Beach Rd/Barkley & Roundabout
or UNO at Nepean Hway Chelsea/ Just across Patterson Riv ( both 7 days
and late).😄

E-bay for smaller sizes theyre usually cheap, like $20 NOS cheap.

Hmmmm

How to ask what size feet she has?[/QUOTE]
Trick for buying surprise clothing or shoe presents - look at the size of another pair or item of the same type when they are not being worn by the intended recipient of the new shoes etc. 😉

Some things you can even measure with a tape measure (but probly not shoes). I have been known to wander about the Myers ladies clothing section with an 8 metre builders tape measure measuring blouses in order to buy a Christmas present. 🙄

"Can I help you sir?"

"Yep, just hold this hooked end thingy of my tape measure on the collar of this jacket so I can measure it and see if it's the right size"

Steve(measure twice, cut once)A

SteveA said:

Steve(measure twice, cut once)A

I thought it went, "Measure with micrometre; mark with chalk; cut with
axe; hope like hell."

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SteveA said:

Trick for buying surprise clothing or shoe presents - look at the size of another pair or item of the same type when they are not being worn by the intended recipient of the new shoes etc. 😉

Some things you can even measure with a tape measure (but probly not shoes). I have been known to wander about the Myers ladies clothing section with an 8 metre builders tape measure measuring blouses in order to buy a Christmas present. 🙄

"Can I help you sir?"

"Yep, just hold this hooked end thingy of my tape measure on the collar of this jacket so I can measure it and see if it's the right size"

Steve(measure twice, cut once)A

argh! no! don't do this! errr... check other shoes, that is. Two pairs of runners, one size 38cm, one size 41 cm... my bike shoes, 40cm.

For clothes buying: You don't need a tape measure, you just wander around until you find someone close to the same size and shape. Then ask them 😄

One nice fellow even tried on some jeans for me once 😉

ali... honest, I'm not the dirty old lady hanging out in menswear!

alison_b said:

argh! no! don't do this! errr... check other shoes, that is. Two pairs of runners, one size 38cm, one size 41 cm... my bike shoes, 40cm.

For clothes buying: You don't need a tape measure, you just wander around until you find someone close to the same size and shape. Then ask them 😄

One nice fellow even tried on some jeans for me once 😉

ali... honest, I'm not the dirty old lady hanging out in menswear!

I left out an important bit - make sure you can take 'em back if they don't fit. 😄

In the right shop, the shop assistants can also be useful to ask about size. "Is she about my size? Or about her size? Or the size of the lady over there?"

But that doesn't work for shoes 🙄

I get asked for size too - "My son is about your size, what size jeans do you take?"

More worrying when I have been shopping with my teenage daughter and I have been asked by woman who was about my age about buying CDs for teenage girls. The evil Steve wanted to suggest something totally inappropriate but the good Steve did the right thing and declined to make any suggestion.

SteveA

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flyingdutch said:

not east Im afraid, but UNO in (is it?) ormond Rd, elwood has some
goodies.
or Cecil Walker's shoe/pedal packages aint bad

UNO , Glenhuntley Rd, Elwood, 'tween Beach Rd/Barkley & Roundabout
or UNO at Nepean Hway Chelsea/ Just across Patterson Riv ( both 7 days
and late).😄

UNO is on Nepean Hwy in Carrum. Just across from Carrum station. Number 642
I think. It closes about 6PM these cold nights. Was closed when I walked
past it tonight.

They have some good specials - I couldn't see shoe prices though.

WR

Stuart Lamble said:

SteveA said:

Steve(measure twice, cut once)A

I thought it went, "Measure with micrometre; mark with chalk; cut with
axe; hope like hell."

No, it's "Measure and cut... then curse... then measure and cut again."

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In article <[email hidden]>, SteveA

Quoted message said:

alison_b said:

argh! no! don't do this! errr... check other shoes, that
is. Two pairs
of runners, one size 38cm, one size 41 cm... my bike shoes,
40cm.

For clothes buying: You don't need a tape measure, you just
wander
around until you find someone close to the same size and shape.
Then
ask them 😄

One nice fellow even tried on some jeans for me once
😉

ali... honest, I'm not the dirty old lady hanging out in menswear!

I left out an important bit - make sure you can take 'em back if

Quoted message said:

they

don't fit. 😄

In the right shop, the shop assistants can also be

Quoted message said:

useful to ask about

size. "Is she about my size? Or about her size? Or the

Quoted message said:

size of the

lady over there?"

But that doesn't work for shoes 🙄

Quoted message said:

I get asked for size too - "My son is about your size, what size jeans
do

Quoted message said:

you take?"

More worrying when I have been shopping with my teenage

Quoted message said:

daughter and I

have been asked by woman who was about my age about buying CDs

Quoted message said:

for

teenage girls. The evil Steve wanted to suggest something

Quoted message said:

totally

inappropriate but the good Steve did the right thing and declined

Quoted message said:

to

make any suggestion.

SteveA

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On hols in Melbourne at Christmas I saw a very pretty dress that I
wanted to buy, but as I had no idea of the correlation between Aus and
UK dress sizes I asked the shop assistant what measurements someone
would be if they wore a size 12. She had no idea. Neither did the
other girl working there. I had to dash outside to find a woman more
or less my size and ask her what size she was and by great good fortune
she had been to M&S (in Hong Kong) and was able to translate sizes for
me*.

It was all worth it, the frock looks lovely.

*Australian sizes are one down from the UK, a 12 in London is a 10 in
Melbourne. Bonus!

SteveA said:

alison_b said:

argh! no! don't do this! errr... check other shoes, that is. Two pairs
of runners, one size 38cm, one size 41 cm... my bike shoes, 40cm.

For clothes buying: You don't need a tape measure, you just wander
around until you find someone close to the same size and shape. Then
ask them 😄

One nice fellow even tried on some jeans for me once 😉

ali... honest, I'm not the dirty old lady hanging out in menswear!

I left out an important bit - make sure you can take 'em back if they
don't fit. 😄

In the right shop, the shop assistants can also be useful to ask about
size. "Is she about my size? Or about her size? Or the size of the
lady over there?"

But that doesn't work for shoes 🙄

I get asked for size too - "My son is about your size, what size jeans
do you take?"

More worrying when I have been shopping with my teenage daughter and I
have been asked by woman who was about my age about buying CDs for
teenage girls. The evil Steve wanted to suggest something totally
inappropriate but the good Steve did the right thing and declined to
make any suggestion.

SteveA

Well I think I will just take her to stores.. Best suggestion so far in
Uno who I have dealt with in the past.. found really good.

She loves her bike. I suspect that this one is a keeper 🙂

quote='dave'SteveA said:

alison_b said:

argh! no! don't do this! errr... check other shoes, that is. Two pairs
of runners, one size 38cm, one size 41 cm... my bike shoes, 40cm.

For clothes buying: You don't need a tape measure, you just wander
around until you find someone close to the same size and shape. Then
ask them 😄

One nice fellow even tried on some jeans for me once 😉

ali... honest, I'm not the dirty old lady hanging out in menswear!

I left out an important bit - make sure you can take 'em back if they
don't fit. 😄

In the right shop, the shop assistants can also be useful to ask about
size. "Is she about my size? Or about her size? Or the size of the
lady over there?"

But that doesn't work for shoes 🙄

I get asked for size too - "My son is about your size, what size jeans
do you take?"

More worrying when I have been shopping with my teenage daughter and I
have been asked by woman who was about my age about buying CDs for
teenage girls. The evil Steve wanted to suggest something totally
inappropriate but the good Steve did the right thing and declined to
make any suggestion.

SteveA

Well I think I will just take her to stores.. Best suggestion so far in
Uno who I have dealt with in the past.. found really good.

She loves her bike. I suspect that this one is a keeper 🙂[/QUOTE]

Dave,
if you want to buy a surprise pressie, buy some cool cycling socks to go with the shoes.🙂

SteveA

i dont want to put a downer on your good intentions, but you cant really buy cycling shoes as a gift for someone

good advice for anyone looking for some cycling shoes is to try on as many diff types as possible. fit is utterly important when it comes to the shoe, so u cant compromise with an ill fitting pair

i take a 42-43 size in a regular shoe but my sidi's are a 45. you might buy something in the right 'size' but it wont necessarily be a good fit

some brands just wont suit some feet

dave said:

hippy said:

dave said:

Hmmmm
How to ask what size feet she has?

"What size feet do you have?" should do the trick 😉

hippy a.k.a. annoying prat being punished with karmic rain rain rain..

Ummmm, she has big feet..( for a girl)
Apparently in one of those female things I just dont understand this
actually makes asking her feet size rude.

Also apparently I am just supposed to know such things.

Its all too hard 🙁

Firstly - hi folks, I'm on here now... And yes, I'm happy with my bike!

Secondly, no - I don't have big feet! It's just that shoes, like every
other item of clothing, have different sizing in different brands... So
picking a pair of shoes to get a size is dangerous, as someone else
pointed out. And I never told him he couldn't ask what size my feet are
- someone else must have done that to him!
Kathy

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Firstly - hi folks, I'm on here now... And yes, I'm happy with my bike!

Hi.

Coming to BR next week? 🙂

Dave's told you about BR, hasn't he?

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