Riding With Strap

ahhhhh i dont know . . .
jus like the sound lol . . .
ill stick with straps all the way

gotta ride with straps if its brakeless . . .
fuck clips but i love the sounds of it clipping in . . .

I rode brakeless, flat pedals, no straps for a couple of weeks while i was building my current ride.

Obviously going very fast would be moronic, but controlling speed and skidding wasnt too much of an issue.

jus need to get the hang of it . . .
when i first got my bike i felt like a donut tryin 2 get my left feet in but now its a piece of cake . . .
but i do have trouble gettin my right feet in the cage, sometimes

spotted you passing chancery lane tube station heading east like 4pm today, you were wobbling a bit trying to slow down at a traffic light - trying to take off your feet from the strap? :P

Clipless is way cheaper than a set of HHSB double strapped cages and pedals.

is it really? £7 for a NJS chrome cages and a fiver for the strap oppose to a cheap £14 (as far as I know) clipless pedal and required you to spend more on getting a shoe to fit your cleat on?

I though most common road pedals (the ones you attach cages to) came with like a little hook thing on the bottom to catch the grips on your shoes and help you flip the pedal, its pretty easy with Vans and their waffle shaped grips, id say practise with those.

that's the thing - it didn't, it's smooth as a baby bum (not that I rub my shoe on one), so it quite diffcuit to flip it up occasionally, methinks getting a better pedal would've make it easier.

Loosen the strap/straps on your non-leading foot... I've been wrestling with an RX-1 and double straps for a year and just figured it out in the last coupla weeks, piece o' piss now... Tight pussy is one thing, tight off-side straps is another thing entirely i.e. Really boring when you're riding in company... There endeth the lesson... Try the veal, I'll be here all week...
Moral: Loosen your non-leading foot's straps... It's easy with singles, a pain in the cunt with doubles...

i find it slightly harder using doubles. dunno, guess the extra weight keeps the pedal where i don't want it. but it's generraly no problem at all. excpet in the rain, then it sux shit.

Sux shit is bad... I have shared your pain... Many times... And occasional horrific embarassment... When riding back to Brixton from east beers with Corny and I haven't been able to get back into the doubles like a newbie Shoreditch cunt,all the fucking way home... Not... A... Good... Look...

I was super-pissed tho'...

I want powergrips... They seem to be awesome.

However, if you're sticking to straps, attach a small weight to the underneath of the pedal to counter balance the straps weight, so they sit strap side up naturally.

I was super-pissed tho'...

that might've been the reason then.

i dont know why more people dont use powergrips, i think theyre fucking ace.

spotted you passing chancery lane tube station heading east like 4pm today, you were wobbling a bit trying to slow down at a traffic light - trying to take off your feet from the strap? :P

i was wobbling because i was pullin out my ipod . . .

i was pullin out my ipod . . .

I don't care whatever slang name you have for it, you shouldn't be doing it in public ;)

If you don't have a tab on the back of your pedal to flip it over attach a large zip tie where the tab would be making sure the joining bit is stuck out like the tab. Voila soemthing to flip with.

Not my idea read about the idea somewhere or other.

Clipless.
You could get a set of old shoes and new pedals off ebay for £20.
Clips and straps are for old men and ladyboys.

put a 1kg weight on the flip side / underside of the pedals and hey presto the straps will always be facing up

is it really? £7 for a NJS chrome cages and a fiver for the strap oppose to a cheap £14 (as far as I know) clipless pedal and required you to spend more on getting a shoe to fit your cleat on?

I said HHSB Double Strap - about 60 quid all in last time i checked, and thats before you have bought some super limited edition Dunks or similar to slip into them

Time Atac Aliums + mid range cycling shoe is the same price

+1 to what Hippy said, even though i am toying with being a lady boy and putting straps on the Lo-Pro for aesthetic reasons

A week into riding and i'm a load better at getting my foot in, thank **** coz i looked a twat going down bishopsgate jabbing at my pedal.

I'm thinking about sharpening up the pick up tabs on my pedals because they are next to useless with my slippy soled trainers.

Just dont look at them when putting your foot in them. Or even think about it. Just do it. The moment you start doing that it becomes a real challinge.

Who tagged this thread 'riding a strap-on'... thats really gonna piss people off when they do a forum search about strap-ons and find a thread about pedals instead.

guilty as charged ^^^^^^^^^

What type of shoes do you all wear with straps?

I used to use straps for years on my MTB but never with fixed gear. Prefer clipless for ease, but sometimes wish I could wear one pair of shoes instead of carrying a change from cycling shoes in my bag.

I'm wearing some adi stan smiths ATM FTW. They're good IMHO.

vans slip ons