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purple hayes
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 Posted: 09/27/05 - 09:50 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | Now, she has her own tool to remove her clipless pedals so that she can take them with her when she goes to the beach to rent a bike, |
It's a 5/8" wrench. Don't bother buying a special pedal wrench. |
I don't know what she has/does, I just know she can take hers off. Yes, my mom is more mechanically savvy than me. Shut up. |
Bike tech tip #23 :: When putting pedals on, turn them toward the front of the bike. When removing them, turn them toward the back.
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mageline
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 09:57 Post subject:
Bike tech #24
If you F-ed up installing your pedals, take your bike to your nearest LBS, preferably with your feet off the pedals. 
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purple hayes
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:01 Post subject:
Bike tech tip #25 :: Don't cross thread your pedals during installation because you don't know which way to turn them. Pedal thread are (probably) steel and your crank arms are aluminum - see where I'm going with that?
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:04 Post subject:
OK, I'm getting the clipless thing. But, I've seen these shoes.  Keep in mind people my bunions busted outta the widest running shoe I have ever found!
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mageline
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:12 Post subject:
Start with mountain bike shoes. They usually have recessed cleats and so they are easier to walk around in and to learn how to use clipless pedals in for the newbies.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:13 Post subject:
| mageline wrote: | | Start with mountain bike shoes. They usually have recessed cleats and so they are easier to walk around in and to learn how to use clipless pedals in for the newbies. |
 MTB shoes are much easier to walk in when you're not riding.
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:30 Post subject:
Thanks for all the tips guys really. This is all new stuff to me and I don't wanna get overwhelmed! 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:32 Post subject:
| mageline wrote: | Bike tech #24
If you F-ed up installing your pedals, take your bike to your nearest LBS, preferably with your feet off the pedals. |
Feet, but not necessarily the shoe. not that I have personal experience with this or anything... 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:35 Post subject:
Also JU, to help phase her in (although she didn't need phasing in) my mom got something like these as her first clipless, they are like a normal platform pedal but with the clipless thing in there. You can use them both ways
That way she could actually pedal with them like a platform if she didn't get a foot clipped in immediately. And, in the beginning when she was nervous, she'd actually leave one foot unclipped and pedal that way.
And yes, they are heavy, but they gave mom peace of mind.
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 10:48 Post subject:
I thought that was a car engine at first...
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 11:04 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | | I thought that was a car engine at first... |
 My first thought was that I could really hurt someone with that!
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 11:09 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Pug wrote: | | I thought that was a car engine at first... |
My first thought was that I could really hurt someone with that! |
Watch your shins around pedals. I'm just saying.
why I wasn't named Grace I'll never know...
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mageline
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 11:13 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | mageline wrote: | Bike tech #24
If you F-ed up installing your pedals, take your bike to your nearest LBS, preferably with your feet off the pedals. |
Feet, but not necessarily the shoe. not that I have personal experience with this or anything... |
Oh, said that in jest. Someone in a another forum posted something about not being able to get out of his clipless pedals during his commute on his new bike. He had to walk his bike to the LBS in his socks. Turned out he had switched the left with the right pedals when he installed them. 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 11:36 Post subject:
| mageline wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | mageline wrote: | Bike tech #24
If you F-ed up installing your pedals, take your bike to your nearest LBS, preferably with your feet off the pedals. |
Feet, but not necessarily the shoe. not that I have personal experience with this or anything... |
Oh, said that in jest. Someone in a another forum posted something about not being able to get out of his clipless pedals during his commute on his new bike. He had to walk his bike to the LBS in his socks. Turned out he had switched the left with the right pedals when he installed them. |
Yeah, I can relate... One of my screws came loose on the cleat on my shoe, so after I clipped in I couldn't unclip!! and I have a bad habit of starting and stopping on the same foot (the one that was stuck) so it made for some awkward times. I eventually, in one shoe, one sock, found some nice guys with lots of tools who helped me out.
/not a hardcore cyclist AT ALL
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Posted: 09/27/05 - 11:39 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | JACKED UP wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | JACKED UP wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | JACKED UP wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | Are you going to get clipless pedals? |
Do they come with dentures? |
Would you ski without clipping into your skis?
Clipless for the win! |
You mean like my feet stay on the pedals when I crash unless I remember to try to get them out? I never understood this help me!  |
Don't crash, then it's not a problem. |
Oh riiiiiight. |
No really, it's not that hard. |
You've never met her, have you?
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