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comfort. I did however manage to have a nice sunburn
pattern on my feet where the sandals weren't 🙂

Been there, done that big time!

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I just want to ride my bike. I don't want to futz around
with funny shoes.

=v= I like this product:

powergrips.compowergrips.comOpen ↗

It accommodates a variety of non-funny shoes, better than
toe clips IMHO. <_Jym_

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annoying thing on Usenet, you're lucky. 🙂

DRS said:

A: Top-posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

what the hey is a top-poster??

cheers

don

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If you find an unimportant disagreement about posting
style the most annoying thing on Usenet, you're lucky. 🙂

DRS said:

A: Top-posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

MP said:

If you find an unimportant disagreement about posting style
the most annoying thing on Usenet, you're lucky. 🙂

DRS said:

A: Top-posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

Think it had to do with the order of the A and Q than as a
serious answer. Subtle is OK too.

Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on
two wheels...

He apparently doesn't like it when people put their
responses at the top of a message, as I am doing here,
rather than at the bottom, the answer in front of the
question.

Personally, I think it makes a lot more sense to do it this
way. If someone has been following the thread, he will know
what has gone before, and can scroll down to refresh his
memory if necessary.

MP

Don said:

what the hey is a top-poster??

cheers

don

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If you find an unimportant disagreement about posting
style the most annoying thing on Usenet, you're lucky. 🙂

DRS said:

A: Top-posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

oh geez.. if that is his big problem rather than all the
stupid off topic and multi crossposted bullfeathers we see
posted, he needs to get a life.. LOL LOL LOL

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He apparently doesn't like it when people put their
responses at the top of a message, as I am doing here,
rather than at the bottom, the answer in front of the
question.

Personally, I think it makes a lot more sense to do it
this way. If someone has been following the thread, he
will know what has gone before, and can scroll down to
refresh his memory if necessary.

MP

Don said:

what the hey is a top-poster??

cheers

don

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If you find an unimportant disagreement about posting
style the most annoying thing on Usenet, you're
lucky. 🙂

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> A: Top-posters.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

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MP said:

If you find an unimportant disagreement about posting
style the most annoying thing on Usenet, you're lucky. 🙂

DRS said:

A: Top-posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

Think it had to do with the order of the A and Q than as a
serious answer. Subtle is OK too.

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I just want to ride my bike. I don't want to futz around
with funny shoes.

=v= I like this product:

powergrips.compowergrips.comOpen ↗

It accommodates a variety of non-funny shoes, better than
toe clips IMHO.

- - They do look kind of goofy, but IMHO they are the next
best thing to clipless pedals and shoes. Much better than
clips and straps with ordinary shoes.

_ Clips and straps aren't as useful as you might think. You
really need an agressive tread on the shoe or cleats to get
much out of them. They'll help you spin faster, which can be
more efficient. Basically, if you can pull your foot
straight back out of whatever is attaching foot to pedal
it's hard to improve the efficiency of your stroke.

_ Clipless pedals aren't magic, it takes a fair amount of
practice to get a pedal stroke that can take full advantage
of them. Many people believe that learning to ankle and pull
through the tops and bottoms is not really doing much to
make you go faster or easier. I'm not one of them, but even
after 30 years I'm still working on perfecting it.

_ Booker C. Bense

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In article <[email hidden]>, Jym Dyer

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I just want to ride my bike. I don't want to futz around
with funny shoes.

=v= I like this product:

powergrips.compowergrips.comOpen ↗

It accommodates a variety of non-funny shoes, better than
toe clips IMHO.

- - They do look kind of goofy, but IMHO they are the next
best thing to clipless pedals and shoes. Much better than
clips and straps with ordinary shoes.

_ Clips and straps aren't as useful as you might think. You
really need an agressive tread on the shoe or cleats to get
much out of them. They'll help you spin faster, which can
be more efficient. Basically, if you can pull your foot
straight back out of whatever is attaching foot to pedal
it's hard to improve the efficiency of your stroke.

Ther's a tradeoff you have to make between efficiency and
non-goofiness. If you're a hard-core, high-category cyclo-
sportif type, then efficiency takes it. If you're just going
on a beer run, non-goofiness takes it.

=-Luigi

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powergrips.compowergrips.comOpen ↗

It accommodates a variety of non-funny shoes, better than
toe clips IMHO.

- - They do look kind of goofy, but IMHO they are the next
best thing to clipless pedals and shoes. Much better
than clips and straps with ordinary shoes.

They're dangerous in that when your foot twists, they trap
your foot -- not good in a crash.

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_ Clips and straps aren't as useful as you might think.
You really need an agressive tread on the shoe or cleats
to get much out of them. They'll help you spin faster,
which can be more efficient.

Pedaling at higher cadences is actually less efficient.

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Basically, if you can pull your foot straight back out of
whatever is attaching foot to pedal it's hard to improve
the efficiency of your stroke.

Pulling back on pedals doesn't improve efficiency.

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_ Clipless pedals aren't magic, it takes a fair amount of
practice to get a pedal stroke that can take full
advantage of them. Many people believe that learning to
ankle and pull through the tops and bottoms is not really
doing much to make you go faster or easier.

That would be anybody who has studied it.

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I'm not one of them, but even after 30 years I'm still
working on perfecting it.

Maybe in another 30 you'll get it.

Steven M. O'Neill said:

Hi. I'm a strong city cyclist, but I've never bothered with
toe clips. Should I? Why or why not?

Today I bought some cheap plastic toe clips, and put them
on. Kept the straps loose. Love 'em. Thanks to everyone
who responded

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Top-posting (snip) don't understand subtle.

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Yes, you are clearly an individual of great subtlety and
sophistication.

Whatever. Either use the clips or not, it's hardly an issue.

I don't, in traffic. I find them to be an additional task
load that I don't need.

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He apparently doesn't like it when people put their
responses at the top of a message, as I am doing here,
rather than at the bottom, the answer in front of the
question.

I don't like top-posting myself. Then again, I don't like
wrong-way cyclists, either.

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