Thursday, November 29, 2007

Bagel Day

In my hurry to get ready for work I inadvertently put on my sneakers instead of my bike shoes. I noticed the difference as soon as I tried to "clip in", but I was in too much of a hurry to go back and change.

Live with it, is my motto.

As well as "gadzooks!"

It felt really weird and unsecure. It felt like there was about an inch hanging over the pedal.

I took a couple pictures when I got home to illustrate this:

 The sneakers...   The bike shoes...
2007Nov29bikeride 002 2007Nov29bikeride 003

Not that much difference, I was surprised to see!

On reflection, I bet it's the stiffening in the sole of the bike shoes that makes all the difference.

Ran over some broken glass Christmas decorations this afternoon. Did not get a flat.

So far I've 45 or so miles commuting this week, but the rumour is, it just might rain tomorrow.

We shall see...





Fooled around with the new Macs at work with the built-in camera.

This is how people at work see me:

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1 comment:

SD_pedalpower said...

I changed my commuter bikes to campus spd clip ins and they work great. One of of the pedal you can clip in or the other side use regular shoes like a platform pedal.

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