Rolled Into the Bike Shop This Morning...
03-10-18, 05:19 PM
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Rolled Into the Bike Shop This Morning...
...literally.
Criterium Bicycles, Colorado Springs.
03-11-18, 10:19 AM
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I skateboarded into a shop. I had lost two of the three bolts of one cleat and couldn't get my foot out of the pedal. A mechanic got my foot out of my shoe so I could get off the bike.
03-11-18, 10:53 AM
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No. Even if they hadn't had both velcro and laces I think it would have been nearly impossible to do. Give it a try. Straddle a bike with one foot clipped in and try to got your foot out of your shoe without falling over.
03-11-18, 11:16 AM
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Hmm. I didn't have any trouble.
We have a local watering hole w/ indoor bike parking that you can ride into if it's not too crowded.
03-11-18, 11:20 AM
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That looks like a pretty fancy bike shop. The LBS close to me are like little boxes in a strip mall.
03-11-18, 04:15 PM
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Pretty easy to backpedal and open the boas on my mtb shoes while still clipped in - can you not adjust the tightness of your shoes while riding?
03-11-18, 05:34 PM
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Cool beans.
We have a bike shop here right beside a bike path but
I would have to bunny hop to ride in.
We have a bike shop here right beside a bike path but
I would have to bunny hop to ride in.
03-11-18, 06:46 PM
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I rode the much hated Fixie Thruster for a lap inside Walmart. The tires were pretty flat but I got up to speed on the back stretch.
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03-11-18, 06:47 PM
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I watched a couple fatties and a plus sized roll into a brewery in Soo Canada yesterday. Made me jealous that I had walked and left my fatty in the back of my van.
03-12-18, 05:48 AM
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It's one thing to reach down a flip a lever like I can with my current Bonts. It's another to release the entire system, which used laces and velcro, to get your entire foot out of the show while on busy city streets with traffic lights. And I am 6'2". Long way to reach down. Guess you had to be there to get it.
03-12-18, 06:35 AM
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It's one thing to reach down a flip a lever like I can with my current Bonts. It's another to release the entire system, which used laces and velcro, to get your entire foot out of the show while on busy city streets with traffic lights. And I am 6'2". Long way to reach down. Guess you had to be there to get it.
I'm 6'1", and have no issue tightening laces or velcro without unclipping. Put the other foot on the tarmac, and reach down. Wait, are you a T-rex? if that's the case I get it, and apologize for being armist.
03-12-18, 07:16 AM
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That's how I go into Wal Mart if I'm on my bike. If you walk in they try to stop you and say you have to leave it outside. But if you blast in they are too lazy to chase.
03-12-18, 07:38 AM
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I stop at Home Depot of Lowes all the time on my ride home. I walk in pushing the bike around, no one's ever said a word to me. (Except a cashier one time to asked why I didn't just leave it on the bike rack outside....when there is absolutely for certain NO bike rack outside...she was odd. But even then she was just asking why, not complaining.)
03-12-18, 08:14 AM
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The hardware stores are different for sure. I still ride into Home Depot just because it's faster to roll than clickety clack awkwardly.
03-12-18, 08:22 AM
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I had to take my shoe off on the bike once, it was a little awkward. Seems like it shouldn't be too bad, but it was the foot I almost always put down first. I think that might have been the boas that I let get gummed up and so taking the shoe off was awkward no matter what. Had to do major surgery on that shoe to replace the laces.
03-17-18, 06:33 AM
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Target is much more forgiving. The one and only time is was out with no tube (or lock) I was by a Target. Walked through with the bike, got a tube and rolled out. Not a word about my bike.
03-17-18, 06:35 AM
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It's one thing to reach down a flip a lever like I can with my current Bonts. It's another to release the entire system, which used laces and velcro, to get your entire foot out of the show while on busy city streets with traffic lights. And I am 6'2". Long way to reach down. Guess you had to be there to get it.
If you can't reach your shoe while stopped with only one foot clipped in, it isn't safe to clip in for you.
03-17-18, 07:52 AM
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03-17-18, 08:06 AM
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Dick's Sporting Goods made me fill out a red tag & leave my bike at the front desk
03-17-18, 09:12 AM
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I used to work in a building with an automatic door. I would unclip one foot swing it over the bike and glide in like that. It was a great entrance, but I was usually there so early nobody else got to see it.
03-20-18, 02:37 PM
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You couldn't just reach down while you were coasting and loosen your shoe?
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