{"id":132,"date":"2004-10-23T19:18:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T19:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=132"},"modified":"2004-10-23T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T19:18:45","slug":"hippy-moves-up-in-the-world-of-pedals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/hippy-moves-up-in-the-world-of-pedals\/","title":{"rendered":"hippy moves up in the world.. of pedals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a late (and LARGE) pancake breakfast at the Chocolate Box<\/a> in Camberwell with Tee, I visited my “dealer” Mick to get a fix. Today’s fix would consist of an even blend of Ultegra SPD-SL pedals (PD-R600) and SPD-SL shoes (the carbon-sole SH-R151’s to be exact). <\/p>\n

After 3 or 4 years of using the SPD mountain bike pedal system for commuting, road racing, mtb racing and even track racing I felt I should move to a proper road system for the road and track bikes.<\/p>\n

\"SPD-SL\"SPD-SL\"SPD-SL\"SPD-SL\"SPD-SL\"SPD-SL<\/p>\n

At this stage I’ve roughly positioned the cleats and taken the Pug<\/a> for a quick spin around the block. Everything feels strange! <\/p>\n

The shoe is 3 strap rather than 2 and a lot stiffer than my old Nike SPDs so my feet will have to get used to the change. <\/p>\n

The engagement mechanism operates differently requiring a softer click-in in a slightly different position. <\/p>\n

One-sided entry will make my starts interesting for a while and I’m sure to slip onto my backside any time I have to walk in these things! They are much less walk-friendly than the SPDs (well.. duh!).<\/p>\n

The actual pedaling action feels more solid when powering down but the amount of float took me by surprise – the shoes seem to ‘skate’ around a little more than my SPDs.<\/p>\n

Using the good advice of not trying anything new before a race, I will take them off and fit the SPDs before tomorrow’s crit.<\/p>\n

– Addendum –<\/p>\n

This might answer a few of your questions:<\/p>\n

www.cyclingnews.com review the Dura Ace SPD-SLs<\/a><\/p>\n

Also bought:<\/p>\n

– an Alien multi-tool<\/p>\n

– one of the new red sidewall Pro Race tyres<\/p>\n

– selection of High-5 and GU bars and gels to test out<\/p>\n

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After a late (and LARGE) pancake breakfast at the Chocolate Box in Camberwell with Tee, I visited my “dealer” Mick to get a fix. Today’s fix would consist of an even blend of Ultegra SPD-SL pedals (PD-R600) and SPD-SL shoes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}