Re: [CR]Ankling? Re: Pacing with your toes down & radios

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:01:38 -0600
From: "Mitch Harris" <mitch.harris@gmail.com>
To: "dgdyer@cox.net" <dgdyer@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Ankling? Re: Pacing with your toes down & radios
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On 8/17/05, dgdyer@cox.net <dgdyer@cox.net> wrote:
>"Low heel" was
> perhaps not the best choice of words -- what I meant to
> convey was that "ankling," by extending the toe of the foot
> through the bottom of the cycle is no longer thought to be
> as efficient or powerful.
>From my reading I understood that this kind of vintage ankling, reaching down with the toe through the bottom of the cycle developed in the century before last as a way to allow one to ride a larger size wheel on an Ordinary.

Mitch Harris
Little Rock Canyon, Utah