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Thread: clipless pedals: why?
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06-26-2009, 12:49 PM #51LittleYellowFriend Guest
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06-26-2009, 12:51 PM #52Registered User
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should I be speaking in the future tense? I predict DH'ers will bring us hover bikes
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06-26-2009, 12:55 PM #53
As soon as I saw the width on page 2 I was expecting Woo's giant ghey rainbow flag graphic.
I'm so let down.
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06-26-2009, 12:56 PM #54
Last edited by kidwoo; 06-26-2009 at 01:12 PM.
Besides the comet that killed the dinosaurs nothing has destroyed a species faster than entitled white people.-ajp
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06-26-2009, 12:57 PM #55Registered User
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and electromagnetic pedals with telepathic release!
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06-26-2009, 01:11 PM #56Hucked to flat once
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06-26-2009, 01:29 PM #57
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06-26-2009, 01:53 PM #58
I think someone mentioned this already, but this thread is retarded.
They're faster. Period .
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06-26-2009, 02:01 PM #59
I ride flats on my rigid hippie bike and my bigger heavy-metal bike. They're just more fun for me. Riding tech sections used to be nerve racking, and now they're just fun. I don't think I ever really learned to ride clipped in too well. I got bucked off more in rock gardens riding clipped in. If my 5-10s had stiffer soles I probably would be as fast pedaling too. I think beginners would have a lot more fun biking if they started off on flats and later moved up to clipped in.
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06-26-2009, 02:01 PM #60
Downhill and Freeride are teh ghey
This thread is rainbow
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06-26-2009, 02:45 PM #61
Three pages? Wow.
"The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra
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06-26-2009, 03:31 PM #62
I rode DH all last summer clipped in without a chain on my bike.
Clipping in encourages commitment.
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06-26-2009, 03:34 PM #63LittleYellowFriend Guest
See you don't get it. The reason to use flats is not to walk around comfortably or ditch a bike in mid air, (though those are plusses) its for a better stance over the bike.
But ah, you are from California, where riding fireroads is 'cool'.
The only place with a shittier scene than Utah
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06-26-2009, 03:41 PM #64
keep talking
It just keeps getting more and more entertaining
Again....most of the fastest (ie skilled) riders in the world ride clipped in. I'm sorry you really don't know how to ride clipless pedals but it's certainly no justification for their 'inadequacies.'
All you had to do was say you preferred flats for xyz reasons. Instead you decided to take some holier than thou absolutist approach. And none of it even holds water.
Here's something that will blow your mind: You can move cleats around on spd shoesBesides the comet that killed the dinosaurs nothing has destroyed a species faster than entitled white people.-ajp
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06-26-2009, 03:43 PM #65
Yeah, Woo and his "fireroads" in Tahoe.
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06-26-2009, 03:56 PM #66
Went for a great ride today, Wapiti trail to Slide Creek.
I have been having some issues with my left knee, (pain in the medial Meniscus) probably from fit changes with my new frame.
To allow for more float (part of the problem may be cleat alignment) I threw on a pair of XT pedals I have had lying around. I have been riding clipless for the last 10 years +-.
What a blast! I had forgotten all the things I enjoyed about riding with clips.
I may sell all my Crank Brothers pedals and go back to the XTs. It was that much better.
Go figure.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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06-26-2009, 04:11 PM #67LittleYellowFriend Guest
Yeah, I've been to Tahoe. Not much different than Utah riding really. Just a bunch of stupid boring singletrack all over the place. Oooh... Kirkwood. How awesome is that place. I think they have one 3ft drop to flat. IDK maybe Northstar is stepping it up?
A bunch of secret log rides in the woods does not a scene make.Last edited by LittleYellowFriend; 06-26-2009 at 04:13 PM.
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06-26-2009, 04:16 PM #68Registered User
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we definately are laking here in mammoth lakes, its summer...off to the lakes with the dogs!
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06-26-2009, 04:21 PM #69
I picture you going to whistler, spending a week pedaling around the village on the sidewalks, and then saying you don't understand why everyone talks about good riding at whistler.
Because that's pretty much exactly what you just did.
But hey if you can't find fun riding in tahoe, no wonder you can't realize some of the benefits that come with clipless pedals eitherLast edited by kidwoo; 06-26-2009 at 04:26 PM.
Besides the comet that killed the dinosaurs nothing has destroyed a species faster than entitled white people.-ajp
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06-26-2009, 04:40 PM #70
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06-26-2009, 04:48 PM #71Registered User
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This thread is gold.
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06-26-2009, 04:56 PM #72
Proof that clipless is better:
I use flats because I suck at climbing and the bit of power transfer I lose doesn't matter, and it's also easier for me to get back on the bike and start pedaling while in a technical section going either up or down because I suck in tech sections as well.
Edit: BTW, the true balance point when in an aligned stance on flat ground is between the ball of the foot and the center of the arch. Or so I've heard.Last edited by snowful; 06-26-2009 at 05:02 PM.
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06-26-2009, 05:01 PM #73
LYF FTW.
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06-27-2009, 12:28 PM #74
Last edited by Johnny Sizzler; 06-27-2009 at 12:28 PM. Reason: to remove an extra "fucking".
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06-28-2009, 09:49 PM #75
That's what I was thinkin, because NO one could actually have thoughts about stance that are that wacked out. Watch an NFL or NCAA linebacker right before the snap of the ball on that "balanced athletic stance", he IS up on the balls of his foot, because that allows him the most options for direction change and power transfer.
2nd is that NO one could actually be dumb enough to be challenging proven SR mags about Utah and Tahoe having "no scene" for biking. HAS to be some good trolling.
FWIW on topic, I have time clipless (still learning after 1.5 years) and I tend to like XC stuff more. I love the extra power transfer, and don't mind at all the bumpy downhill stuff, and I suck too much at big techie features to ride them all cleanly, so I have gotten pretty accomplished at kickouts of the clips. I won't go back to flats for the stuff I ride. Of course, Colorado ALSO has no good mtb'ing, so what could I possibly know.
Now, LYF, back to the padded room with your dumb douchie ass.
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