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minus-squareteslekova@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoYep. Competition cyclists these days probably just have the special shoes which lock onto the pedals. Dunno if there’s any goth boots that have those. I’m old, and my dad and granddad were bicycle mechanics, so I grew up with the stirrups.
minus-squareSharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoI’ve never done anything that would warrant them, lol … just trundling along on my shitty old mountain bike with big wide platform pedals :-)
minus-squareteslekova@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoThey make pedalling a lot easier, believe me. Very useful on hills. They will also exercise muscles in your leg that haven’t been used for cycling before, so you may feel the tops of your thighs burning for a little while! :-)
minus-squareSharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI’ll take your word for it!
Yep. Competition cyclists these days probably just have the special shoes which lock onto the pedals. Dunno if there’s any goth boots that have those.
I’m old, and my dad and granddad were bicycle mechanics, so I grew up with the stirrups.
I’ve never done anything that would warrant them, lol … just trundling along on my shitty old mountain bike with big wide platform pedals :-)
They make pedalling a lot easier, believe me. Very useful on hills. They will also exercise muscles in your leg that haven’t been used for cycling before, so you may feel the tops of your thighs burning for a little while! :-)
I’ll take your word for it!