{"id":140,"date":"2004-10-26T22:30:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=140"},"modified":"2004-10-26T22:30:27","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T22:30:27","slug":"first-ride-with-spd-sl-road-pedals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/first-ride-with-spd-sl-road-pedals\/","title":{"rendered":"First ride with SPD-SL road pedals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well.. to be honest.. they suck! <\/p>\n<p>Road pedals are even more unco to walk in than I thought (as I discovered when picking up photos on the ride home tonight). They are a prick to clip into, especially under pressure. Unclipped, they seem to float near vertical, and I tend to kick the whole pedal around and stomp my foot onto the bottom of the pedal, so that it just flies off and makes me look stupid (not hard). If I wasn&#8217;t adjusting to these for racing I&#8217;d piss them off and head straight back to SPD territory. Of course, I&#8217;m also babying them in a vain attempt to keep the sexy, shiny carbon fibre sole looking schmick. Summary: Great when pedaling, shit when stopping\/stopped\/starting. I&#8217;m sure I will get used to them.. <\/p>\n<p>On another note, the float doesn&#8217;t seem near as severe as I mentioned initially. When under load, my feet don&#8217;t seem to rotate at all, unlike the SPDs. More testing soon..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well.. to be honest.. they suck! Road pedals are even more unco to walk in than I thought (as I discovered when picking up photos on the ride home tonight). They are a prick to clip into, especially under pressure. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/first-ride-with-spd-sl-road-pedals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/140"}],"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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}