Cleat, cleat, boom
Somewhere along the way on the AIDS/LifeCycle I broke one of the retaining pads on my left cleat1. It would have been great had I not been a dum-dum and left my spare, still in the wrapper, cleats at home. As it was it wasn’t so bad, I just had trouble pulling up on the pedal on my left side. I’ve ridden a few times since then, but tonight I finally replaced my cleats with the spanking new ones. The reason? I intend to be up early tomorrow morning to ride. I’m actually looking forward to it.
Footnotes:- you can see it on the left side in the picture above↩
July 17th, 2007 at 7:55
oh man! i just got my first pair of clipless pedals. i’m riding fixed gear and my brakes have been shot for the past couple weeks. i actually had to put my clipped pedals back on because riding clipless with no brakes freaks me out!
do you use spd pedals? i have a hard time clipping in still, but i’m pretty new at it. i guess if i had a brake it’d be easier…
what sort of cleats do you use? i got some mountain ones because they seem easier to walk in, even though i’m riding road.
also i may have crossed links, but are you perchance in the anijam at comic con? i just signed up for saturday. i’ll be brining my fixie down too! that’s how i came across your blog and i’m pretty pumped it’s a bike blog and not all about work!
July 17th, 2007 at 8:44
I can imagine new to clipless with no brakes on a fixie would freak anyone out. Once you’re used to them thought, you’ll wonder how you got on without them.
I ride Speedplay Frog pedals on my road bike (my commuter still has flats, but I’m probably going to put the Frogs on there soon). They are a mountain pedal and the cleat fits right into an SPD sized shoe (check the Speedplay compatibility chart to be sure). I love them because they provide enough float and I can walk around in them without needing cleat covers. A lot of people use the mountain or SPD cleats because of the walking advantage.
I blog about life. Work when I can and bikes and fun the rest of the time :)