Easier Gear Shifter
- Thread starter Benjahmin
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What about using velcro straps, below is one version of many
Yes or Power Grips for quick release, they'd do the job but then you'd still have to look down to flip the pedal the right way up. They'd need a lightly sprung cam to catch the pedal perpendicular to the crank. Suddenly I see the lure of 3D printers...
The biggest problem with that is that you need to wear specific shoes so removes the possibility of an impulse trip. I have the same problem because I use SPD's on both of my bikes so often end up just using the car for short trips to the next village etc. If I had space a 3rd bike with toe clips would be the best solution
Magnetic pedals, www.magped.com/en/
Adapter for SPD-compatible pedals that lets you wear street shoes
www.forgecycles.co.uk
BBB Feetrest SPD Pedal Adapters
The Forge Cycleworks - BBB Feetrest SPD Pedal Adapters - £8.00GBP
www.forgecycles.co.uk
Tried those before, they don't work well as the free pedal always ends up upside down when you pull away due to the weight of the adaptor. Que much kicking of the pedal trying to get it the right way up when you should just be accelerating.Adapter for SPD-compatible pedals that lets you wear street shoes
BBB Feetrest SPD Pedal Adapters
The Forge Cycleworks - BBB Feetrest SPD Pedal Adapters - £8.00GBP
Too true. Heel slings would hang right and you might not feel the SPD clip under stiff soled shoes. (edit: or would the straps trap you in the SPDs when using them?)
They'd help with centering sideways too but I was thinking more along these lines
They'd help with centering sideways too but I was thinking more along these lines
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During fitter days when I rode my bike around London wearing safety boots that gripped studded pedal quite well.
Ive made a plywood plate with an aluminium up stand around the front perimeter that screwed to each pedal. It’s crude and It only fits the front half of my foot but seems to work.
I need to find some aluminium plate I can cut to shape and turn the edges up on to replicate the same shape.
Need to wear the same trainers each time though
Ive made a plywood plate with an aluminium up stand around the front perimeter that screwed to each pedal. It’s crude and It only fits the front half of my foot but seems to work.
I need to find some aluminium plate I can cut to shape and turn the edges up on to replicate the same shape.
Need to wear the same trainers each time though
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Bolt sawn off large Dutch wooden clogs onto the pedals? Aero.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116354845172
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116354845172
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The Dutch don't and that's good enough for me
That reminds me my road bike had toe stops half the height of these 'quarter clips', they worked a treat, you could centre up by feel alone. I must have been defter at pedal flipping back then, or had more patience / less traffic.
Two lengths of this Velcro format hold waterproof rucksack covers on my rackmounted downtube battery. Hook one side, the other side is loop. They're held onto the rack by small zipties either side:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392949237871
A length(s) of velcro could be held onto a pedal using small zipties, securing velcro over and around the foot, with hook or loop sewn onto the top of trainers, or held using some velcro (hook or loop uppermost, depending) under (or by the laces, weaving through) the laces, to keep the foot on the pedal? You wouldn't want the trainers or shoes held in so strongly they couldn't escape in an emergency.
Or you could make a velcro foot cocoon weaving through the pedal using one long length (up to 20m lengths are available on ebay), but for just the front part of the foot. Guerney's Half Front Foot Velcro Pedal Caccoon™ is invented
It could hold small tools and snacks.
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