[CR]RE: Goring a sacred cow/pedal foot movement restraint

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:07:36 -0500
From: "Edward Albert" <Edward.H.Albert@hofstra.edu>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]RE: Goring a sacred cow/pedal foot movement restraint


I certainly agree with Roman and Duncan and much of the rest that has been said. Just to add a bit. I guess if you are running errands around town the lack of clips and straps/clippless pedals makes little difference. However, when I first learned how to "ride," and by that I mean either "do a ride" or race I was alwas taught (In my case by a bunch of old Brits in a Toronto based club called Scarbouough CC, that one had to lean to spin and to always use the smallest gear you could get away with. That way you would develope what we all know as supplesse, or a smooth circular pedal movment rather then the stomping down on the pedals we always seen in the novice. So we spun our brains out and only put it on the "big meat" towards the end of the ride/race. It was was also supposed to make your legs less tired if you weren't pushing big gears all the time but waited until you really needed them toward the end. Anyway, you could never spin those high cadences without you feet anchored to the pedals. At 120+ RPM or even the usual 90+ your feet would just not stay put........unless of course you had already developed incredible supplesse. Edward Albert Chappaqua, NY, USA