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26/7/13 20:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyRiding short distances in reasonable traffic does not make me feel bad-ass.
Doing moderate bike mechanic stuff DOES make me feel incredibly bad-ass. Especially when I have to spend twenty minutes yanking on the wrench to get it to turn!
OH YEAH.
(I may possibly be the only cyclist in history to upgrade from toe-clip pedals to platform pedals -- when I got Nice Bike I fell down because I couldn't get the hang of getting my toes in the clips, and I'm sure I would've gotten the hang of it eventually, but in Brooklyn where you run into ten traffic lights every mile, what's the point? I do not plan on riding Nice Bike frequently -- I bought it something like four months before I moved to New York, and it's much better suited to the suburbs -- but it's useful if I want to lend my sister a bike so we can ride together.)
Also I adjusted my basket so hopefully I will no longer have a problem with heel strike. And tied the loose bit down with kitchen twine and a knot I learned on YouTube.
Doing moderate bike mechanic stuff DOES make me feel incredibly bad-ass. Especially when I have to spend twenty minutes yanking on the wrench to get it to turn!
OH YEAH.
(I may possibly be the only cyclist in history to upgrade from toe-clip pedals to platform pedals -- when I got Nice Bike I fell down because I couldn't get the hang of getting my toes in the clips, and I'm sure I would've gotten the hang of it eventually, but in Brooklyn where you run into ten traffic lights every mile, what's the point? I do not plan on riding Nice Bike frequently -- I bought it something like four months before I moved to New York, and it's much better suited to the suburbs -- but it's useful if I want to lend my sister a bike so we can ride together.)
Also I adjusted my basket so hopefully I will no longer have a problem with heel strike. And tied the loose bit down with kitchen twine and a knot I learned on YouTube.
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31/7/13 00:59 (UTC)Right now I'm intending to bike commute only in moderately good weather (we don't often get snow that sticks, and the authorities are good at plowing and salting, so I think I may even be okay for most of winter), and I'm more afraid of getting my foot stuck and falling into traffic than having a foot slip off a pedal. (I haven't had a problem with that, maybe because I wear very grippy shoes.) Especially when traffic is so stop-and-go here. But I am hella impressed with people who can ride with clipless pedals!