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Anyone recommend any nice pedals with toe clips or with clips’n’straps.
For road use only.
A friend been riding clipless for a little while, but she has just had a second broken wrist from a clipped-in tumble and had had it with clipless. Can’t argue with her choice, it just isn’t working for her.
Thought I’d suggest toeclips instead as a halfway house suitable for road, but many of the option seem to be cheap resin pedals with plastic clips and straps that could be as much if a risk of getting hooked up.
Any links to nice shiny flats with maybe metal toe clips?
Suggestions coupled with specific recommendations often seem more appealing after all.
Maybe just stick with flats for the time being until confidence is back? One more crash in toeclips and it might put them off for life. I know flats on a road bike is a no no bit it can't look dafter than not riding and wearing another cast?
What about half-toe clips? Never used them, but assume less chance of getting stuck in them, but then not sure how much better they'd be than just flats alone
mrs NBT uses toe clips since her hip replacement. We just use boggo standard ones with resin cages but no straps, and they work fine
Something like this
https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m17b0s168p4483/ZEFAL-Resin-Toeclips
on top of just standard pedals like this
https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m17b0s86p2274/SYSTEM-EX-WELLGO-M1500-Pedals
not those specific ones - just the ones that came with the tandem
Toe clips are even worse than clipless for getting caught in though.
**EDIT** I mean toe clips With straps. Using just the 'toe' bit a-la NBT's suggestion obviously mitigates that
MKS are probably still the 'standard'. Sylvan is the norm or the more platform models for more underfoot support.
If not using straps than flats are probably better still and never require the practiced flip to get your foot in.
Can you still get leather Binda straps? Surely that's the most important part.
I used to ride clips'n'straps for years. If the soles of your shoes have a heavy tread they can be a bit of a struggle getting them in and out.
In the "old days" you used to nail a plate onto the sole of your cycling shoes. The plate had a slot that engaged with the back of the pedal meaning you had to put your hand down to flick the strap release buckle before your foot could come free.
One winter's Sunday afternoon on a club run with our 66" fixed wheel bikes (that only had a barely functional at best front brake) one of our club wasn't able to get his feet out at the top of that long steep descent by the Winking Man, coming from Buxton to Leek. Standard procedure was to lift your legs out of the way of the pedals until you got to the bottom and played Russian Roulette trying to get them back on the pedals without stopping. He got about a third of the way down before his knees couldn't keep up with the RPM and he got bucked off and broke a collar bone.
Still one of the funniest things I've seen.
Thanks guys, I’ll pass some of that on.
Not the bits about nailing your feet to the bike tho. 😉
BITD I always found Powergrips quite intuitive to use. Another option along the same lines would be the Restrap pedal straps (I have reservations about their diagonal ones; they go the opposite way to the Powergrips and might be tricky to get out of in a hurry, so their horizontal version might be better for your partner).
Getting out of toe clips of they are done up tight enough to be of any benefit is more difficult than twisting your foot to unclip a clipless pedal I'm my opinion. I assume they had the clipless pedal at the lowest tension setting?
If its shimano spd try a set of multirelease cleats first the issue with them is normally keeping your feet in! (and they are much better than undoing the tension because you can pull out of them rather than still having to twist.
But for posh toes clips you need three little letters
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As above, toe clips can be a pain to get out of.
How about some SPDs with platforms round them, then she can unclip in advance, on approach to a junction say,and have her foot on the pedal but ready to put down. Doesn't help with emergency unclipping, but toestraps are at least as bad in an emergency.
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I last tried toe straps a couple of years ago thinking it would save time in transition in a duathlon if I could ride in my running shoes. That bit of the plan worked, but they were terrible everywhere else
My wife has fallen a couple of times with spds.
And at least that number with toe clips and straps.
But, she hardly ever rides.
So, as an alternative view, the answer is practice practice practice.
Does she have a turbo trainer?
I'd agree with the above in that toe clips with straps are waaaay harder to get out of than clipless. Either try MTB SPDs with the multi-release cleats, or just use plain MTB flat pedals.