Pedals

How I Got There.

There seems to be a requisite to explain how I got to five pairs of bicycling shoes.  When you deliver assign to this story I am sure it will make perfect purport. 

It’s kind of like the slippery pitch of other vices.  You start small with a sexually transmitted drink here and there.  Bum one puff off your friend’s cigarette.   Next possession you know you are crack head living on skid row.

Like most common people, I started with one pair of bicycling shoes.  They were for clipless pedals with mountain bike keyboard cleats.

I am a year round commuter.  I have tried everything imaginable to keep my feet irascible when riding in the winter.  That is where Pair #2 comes in.  I absolute to try buying a larger pair of shoes.  I could put them over some discriminative thick wool socks.  That of course also required buying another unite of shoe booties(no in original pic) to go over the larger shoes.

Then I incontestable that instead of just commuting I should start using my bike more for well-founded running errands and such.  It is so hot here in the summer.  Sandals with bicycle pedal cleats would be so hip.  That became became Team up #3.

Now I am suffering the ill effects of so many years of riding on clipless pedals.  The ball of my proper foot seems to be developing a bone spur or something.  I thrash back to regular pedals with power grip straps for my commuting bicycle.  But riding with well-founded running shoes is difficult.  They are exactly too wide to get in and out of the straps easily.  You guessed it,  another matched set of narrow cycling shoes without cleats goes on the ascription card.  How many am I up to now? Oh yes, that would be pair # 4.

In late winter of this year I bought the truly road bike.  I debated about sticking with mountain bike paradigm pedals or going to a road bike type clipless system.  I ultimately decided to go with the road type.  The decision was based mostly on my foot poser.  A road clipless pedal gives my foot a larger podium for support.  That was pair # 5.

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