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Aldi offers
This Thursday Aldi are offering several products for cyclists (again)
including Bikemate SPD compatible Combi Bike Pedals at £12.99 and compatible shoes at £19.99. I've never tried SPD pedals, (I use clips) are these worth having for general cycling? Aldi products are usually excellent value. http://uk.aldi.com/special_buys/product_3914.html John Pitcock |
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John Pitcock vaguely muttered something like ...
I've never tried SPD pedals, (I use clips) are these worth having for general cycling? Most definitely. These are cheap enough for anyone to try them out at least, and especially good because you can still use 'normal' shoes as well as having a set of bike/pedal specific shoes. Aldi products are usually excellent value. http://uk.aldi.com/special_buys/product_3914.html Yup. -- Paul ... (8(|) Homer Rules !!! http://paul-xxx.blogspot.com/ Just started a blog .. "A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using." |
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Sorry to profess my ignorance but what does SPD mean/stand for. I use pedals with toe straps or just ordinary pedals i.e. no clips o straps. Would these shoes be suitable as I bought some clothing fro Aldi and was quite impressed and was thinking of getting some shoes. Cheers for any advice -- Skunk |
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John Pitcock wrote:
This Thursday Aldi are offering several products for cyclists (again) including Bikemate SPD compatible Combi Bike Pedals at £12.99 and compatible shoes at £19.99. I've never tried SPD pedals, (I use clips) are these worth having for general cycling? Aldi products are usually excellent value. http://uk.aldi.com/special_buys/product_3914.html John Pitcock That'll do me for winter. Thanks for the heads-up! |
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Skunk vaguely muttered something like ...
Sorry to profess my ignorance but what does SPD mean/stand for. I use pedals with toe straps or just ordinary pedals i.e. no clips or straps. Would these shoes be suitable as I bought some clothing from Aldi and was quite impressed and was thinking of getting some shoes. Cheers for any advice. Can't remember but I think it's something like "Shimano Pedalling Dynamics" .... Basically you fasten an spd cleat to the sole of your spd compatible shoe. The cleat clips into the spd side of the pedal and can't be pulled out by a forwards or rearwards movement, onkly by twisting the foot. This gives the effect of being strapped in, but is more stable, less prone to failure and is a direct contact between shoe and pedal, unlike straps which can, and do, give slightly. Increases efficiency of anyones pedalling no end. 'A good thing' IMHO -- Paul ... (8(|) Homer Rules !!! http://paul-xxx.blogspot.com/ Just started a blog .. "A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using." |
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Paul - xxx wrote:
Skunk vaguely muttered something like ... Sorry to profess my ignorance but what does SPD mean/stand for. I use pedals with toe straps or just ordinary pedals i.e. no clips or straps. Would these shoes be suitable as I bought some clothing from Aldi and was quite impressed and was thinking of getting some shoes. Cheers for any advice. Can't remember but I think it's something like "Shimano Pedalling Dynamics" ... Basically you fasten an spd cleat to the sole of your spd compatible shoe. The cleat clips into the spd side of the pedal and can't be pulled out by a forwards or rearwards movement, onkly by twisting the foot. This gives the effect of being strapped in, but is more stable, less prone to failure and is a direct contact between shoe and pedal, unlike straps which can, and do, give slightly. Increases efficiency of anyones pedalling no end. 'A good thing' IMHO And you foot can move inside your shoe as only the bottom of the shoe is fastened to the pedal, there is no strap around the top like with clips & straps |
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in message , Skunk
') wrote: Sorry to profess my ignorance but what does SPD mean/stand for. 'Shimano Pedal Dynamics' or some such marketing crap. Essentially the most common design for clipless pedals currently. Not necessarily the best, but they work (at least the Shimano ones do, andm ost of the clones do too). I use pedals with toe straps or just ordinary pedals i.e. no clips or straps. Would these shoes be suitable as I bought some clothing from Aldi and was quite impressed and was thinking of getting some shoes. Clipless pedals are way better than toeclips. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; ... exposing the violence incoherent in the system... |
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:51:50 +1000, Skunk
wrote (more or less): Sorry to profess my ignorance but what does SPD mean/stand for. I use pedals with toe straps or just ordinary pedals i.e. no clips or straps. Would these shoes be suitable as I bought some clothing from Aldi and was quite impressed and was thinking of getting some shoes. Cheers for any advice. SPD is a backronym for s-pee-dee, aka 'Speedy', presumably to highlight that it's a clipped pedal that's a lot faster to get in and out of than trad. toe-clips. -- Cheers, Euan Gawnsoft: http://www.gawnsoft.co.sr Symbian/Epoc wiki: http://html.dnsalias.net:1122 Smalltalk links (harvested from comp.lang.smalltalk) http://html.dnsalias.net/gawnsoft/smalltalk |
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Gawnsoft wrote:
SPD is a backronym for s-pee-dee, aka 'Speedy', presumably to highlight that it's a clipped pedal that's a lot faster to get in and out of than trad. toe-clips. That's a new one on me. I've always known them as SPuDs, partly as it's shorter to say and at least in part because it seems to annoy "purists" almost as much as calling swimming fins "flippers"... Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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Looks like hanging out on u.r.c. (and on the one notable occasion)
with u.r.c-ers is turning me into a dedicated leisure cyclist, from my previous devout utilitarianism... Don't worry, winter'll soon fix that... :-) |
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