Bike porn

I'm not sure its fair comparing them to pedals

I'd agree with that.

Why don't they make the cleats for those pedals fully encircle the pedal?
Slide the cleat/shoe/foot onto the pedal from the side and then no amount of pull will unclip you.

i hope this doesn't offend mike but this dude looks like mike / trampsparadise in about 30 years time !

his face looks so similar to mikes

Why don't they make the cleats for those pedals fully encircle the pedal?
Slide the cleat/shoe/foot onto the pedal from the side and then no amount of pull will unclip you.

Because your ankles* would snap during your first accident. Apparantly if you want a bit of float you just loosen the cleats. Sounds bloody barmey to me.

(*Actually having had a Quattro cleat freeze to a eggbeater pedal (-12DegC). I can add that you have a chance that your shoe will crack first.)

Because your ankles* would snap during your first accident.

Funny how this doesn't happen with track riders, who have been using non-releasing shoe-to-pedal attachments of various kinds for donkeys' years.

In 1979, Roger Sanders, a physician's assistant had purchased a tandem bicycle with the thought that his nine year old daughter would ride with him. However, he had a concern about her using the popular toe clip and strap connection to the pedals. In his work, he had seen the aftereffects of accidents where the bicycle riders couldn't release from the pedals, causing significant injury.

I can see why Look started in skis, because with two unconnected planks attached to your feet they can head off in opposite directions when you crash, but on a bike, if both feet stay attached to the pedals they will always stay 330-350mm apart and in line with one another.

Funny how this doesn't happen with track riders, who have been using non-releasing shoe-to-pedal attachments of various kinds for donkeys' years.
I can see why Look started in skis, because with two unconnected planks attached to your feet they can head off in opposite directions when you crash, but on a bike, if both feet stay attached to the pedals they will always stay 330-350mm apart and in line with one another.

You make a good point there. During my close encounter with ankle snappage, one of my legs was loose, so my body could twist under its own weight.

But being an experianced 'toppler'. I can say that it hurts your hips when the tyres wash out on snow/ice/water etc., and you dont clip-out.

2) repost?
3) weight-saving porn!

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Meh.

not a very good way to save weight.

Somehow this works in Dalston >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

not a very good way to save weight.

Hence why no one has done it since then?

number three would be useful if there's a crosswind

I'm going apologise before each post:

I'm going apologise before each post

why?

.... but there was no apology. come on, apologise then!

i'm digging that bike apart from that stupid thing on the tt!

i'm digging that bike apart from that stupid thing on the tt!

Toptube protector is a hellova lot less stupid than a big dent.
Maybe the owner doesn't just push his bike from coffee shop to coffee shop.

From the look of it, he does no more than push it around the studio.

why would he fit the front brake then?..

From the look of it, he does no more than push it around the studio.

Hmmm, clean does not always mean unridden.
That said, the saddle looks particularly unused.

Cold hands anyone?

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Cold hands anyone?

Not if you hold the drops, like you're supposed to on a track bike. I realise that this is a bit of a radical concept for you fixie skidders...

Cold hands anyone?

Please be being ironic.

Really?