went shopping yesterday

Kim said:

evenen all,

went shopping yesterday, lotsa new things, including a pair of diadora
shoes and some VP-133 pedals =) SPD type numbers =D

i've been walking around in the shoes all day and they're quite cumfy.
now i'm just about to fit the pedals to the bike...

i expect that once they're on i won't be able to not go out for a ride,
but its really wet and slippery this mornen =/

any tips and tricks i should know?

If you've never used clipless pedals before, make sure you:
a) Practise unclipping while leaning up against something before you
ride anywhere
b) don't get freaked out by the loose feeling you get from having pedal
float
c) Unclip before you stop
d) Make sure when you stop that you lean towards the unclipped foot...
e) When you *DO* topple over at 0km/h consider yourself part of the
family...

Have fun.

--
BrettS

On 2005-07-13, BrettS (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Kim said:

went shopping yesterday, lotsa new things, including a pair of diadora
shoes and some VP-133 pedals =) SPD type numbers =D

i've been walking around in the shoes all day and they're quite cumfy.
now i'm just about to fit the pedals to the bike...

i expect that once they're on i won't be able to not go out for a ride,
but its really wet and slippery this mornen =/

any tips and tricks i should know?

If you've never used clipless pedals before, make sure you:

f) don't walk on the wet roads. Especially don't make a dash across
the road when traffic is coming. Woopsie!

--
TimC
Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! --unknown

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>> "KimF" == Kim <[email hidden]> writes:

KimF> evenen all, went shopping yesterday, lotsa new things,
KimF> including a pair of diadora shoes and some VP-133 pedals =)
KimF> SPD type numbers =D

Nice. I've got straight SPDs, not sure what sort, which can be annoying
when all I want to do is ride down the shops. If you don't mind I'd
like to hear how you go without the cleats.

KimF> any tips and tricks i should know?

I've found that Sheldon's mounting technique helps a lot:

http://sheldonbrown.com/starting.html

With the addition of this bit. Don't try to clip in the other shoe
until you've got your bottom well and truly planted in the saddle. This
is important becaue it gives your body a reference point of where
everything should be. With practice you'll clip in on the first
rotation 95% of the time.

Bearing above in mind, find somewhere relatively free of traffic and
practice practice practice till you can clip in from take off virtually
every time. That should also give you enough practice unclipping, which
is just as important :-)

If you wear your cleats all the time (I wear mine about 70% of the
time), get used to friends, colleagues and associates looking at you
strangely and asking if you ride a bike.

Resign yourself to the knowledge that cleat on concrete is an awful
sound that you're just going to have to put up with.

Resist the urge to do a tap dance in tiled buildings just because you
can.

Don't get cocky. I was riding in to work after a year of incident free
clipless pedalling. Rolled to a stop at the traffic lights. Fell
over. Completely forgot about the whole putting your foot down thing.

Nothing bruised except ego as all and sundry guffawed around me. I can
live with that :-)
--
Cheers | ~~ __@
Euan | ~~ _-\<,
Melbourne, Australia | ~ (*)/ (*)

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If you wear your cleats all the time (I wear mine about 70% of the
time), get used to friends, colleagues and associates looking at you
strangely

Are you sure that it's not the high heels that the cleats are connected to
that are getting the looks?

Graeme

first timer?
Maybe don't have the tention up to much on them. They're new so they'll be [censored] to get out of in a hurry I find. (Even now after 5yrs of SPDs I still bungle the exit out of newly replaced SPD cleats).

Kim wrote:

went shopping yesterday, lotsa new things, including a pair of diadora
shoes and some VP-133 pedals =) SPD type numbers =D

*dribble*

i've been walking around in the shoes all day and they're quite cumfy.
now i'm just about to fit the pedals to the bike...

Woohoo. Congratulations on taking the big step Kim!

any tips and tricks i should know?

Practise, practise, practise. It's really not that hard once you get the hang of it, but you *can* get into trouble... have fun with it. You are now officially FAST!!!

LotteBum

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Graeme> Euan <[email hidden]> wrote in
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If you wear your cleats all the time (I wear mine about 70% of
the time), get used to friends, colleagues and associates looking
at you strangely

Graeme> Are you sure that it's not the high heels that the cleats
Graeme> are connected to that are getting the looks?

Probably more the fishnet stockings over unshaven legs...
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Cheers | ~~ __@
Euan | ~~ _-\<,
Melbourne, Australia | ~ (*)/ (*)

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If you wear your cleats all the time (I wear mine about 70% of the
time), get used to friends, colleagues and associates looking at you
strangely

Are you sure that it's not the high heels that the cleats are connected to
that are getting the looks?

Graeme

Ah, [censored].

Tam *removing ugg boots with cleats*

LotteBum said:

Kim said:

went shopping yesterday, lotsa new things, including a pair of diadora
shoes and some VP-133 pedals =) SPD type numbers =D

*dribble*

i've been heading in this direction for some time =) been saving ...
next is replacement BB

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i've been walking around in the shoes all day and they're quite cumfy.
now i'm just about to fit the pedals to the bike...

Woohoo. Congratulations on taking the big step Kim!

i decided to go clipless (strapless) as the pedal i had were driving me
nuts. the running shoes i had were chewed up by the previous pedals and
the boots i wear to work don't fit in the straps (hitting end of life
anyways)... so to kill multiple birds with one stone =)
can't find a link to them on the web anywheres, but they are a mountain
bike shoe with decent lace ups and a wide velcro strap over =D very
happy wearing them so far.

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any tips and tricks i should know?

Practise, practise, practise.

=) i've spent about 30 minutes clipping and unclipping in between
ad-breaks watching the TdF tonight =D ankles hurt a bit =/

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It's really not that hard once you get
the hang of it, but you *can* get into trouble... have fun with it.

not had the chance to get on the road yet, been too wet =(

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You are now officially FAST!!!

heh ... now i know you're kidding =)

next week back to work will be the real test tho.

cheers,

kim

BrettS said:

Kim said:

any tips and tricks i should know?

If you've never used clipless pedals before, make sure you:
a) Practise unclipping while leaning up against something before you
ride anywhere

check

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b) don't get freaked out by the loose feeling you get from having pedal
float

pedal float? eh?

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c) Unclip before you stop

check

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d) Make sure when you stop that you lean towards the unclipped foot...

um.. check

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e) When you *DO* topple over at 0km/h consider yourself part of the
family...

does it count if i've already found the kitchen floor?

kim

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e) When you *DO* topple over at 0km/h consider yourself part of the
family...

does it count if i've already found the kitchen floor?

Not at all. SPuD stacks must be performed in front of many witnesses, so the
embarrassment is complete. ;^)

Tony F
www.thefathippy.com

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e) When you *DO* topple over at 0km/h consider yourself part of the
family...

does it count if i've already found the kitchen floor?

Not at all. SPuD stacks must be performed in front of many witnesses, so the
embarrassment is complete. ;^)

damn. he was me hoping i'd got that out of the way already =)

theres plenty of time to do it again i s'pose

i've so much to do this week i prolly won't get to ride until mondaay =/

will spend a bit more time this eve practising the clip in, clip out.
maybe i can bring the bike inside =) if my good woman will let me 😉
but it is my birthday so ....

cheers,

kim

Kim said:

will spend a bit more time this eve practising the clip in, clip out.
maybe i can bring the bike inside =) if my good woman will let me 😉
but it is my birthday so ....

cheers,

kim

in that case we expect the bike in the bedroom
(PLEASE refrain from posting pics)
seeing as its your birthday, and all... 🙄

flyingdutch said:

Kim said:

will spend a bit more time this eve practising the clip in, clip out.
maybe i can bring the bike inside =) if my good woman will let me 😉
but it is my birthday so ....

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in that case we expect the bike in the bedroom
(PLEASE refrain from posting pics)
seeing as its your birthday, and all... 🙄

settled for a bit more practice in the kitchen 😉
didn't have any balance issues this time!
these SPD type things will take a lot more practise =)

kim