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Originally Posted by kelownagirl

Anyone have LOOK Keo pedals/cleats? I'm thinking of switching because I've been having a sore knee when I bike longer distances and the LBS guy suggested a pedal with more float. The ones I'm looking at have 9 degrees of float and have a non slip cleat which is good for walking/running (in a tri).

I guess I'm wondering if you found the switch from regular SPD's difficult or not.

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I recently put Look Keos on my road bike instead of the Shimano mtb spd's I was using, and have started using separate road shoes. Maybe you can get shoes with more recessed cleats? because the ones I have have a HUGE cleat which is pretty impossible to run in. Walk, ok, though a bit ducklike. And they do have a non-slip layer of rubber, but it's wearing off like it was made of sugar.

They were easy to get used to though, but I still find it a bit of a bore to flip the pedal every time before clicking in, happens a lot in city riding. Otherwise I can't say I've felt a huge difference. The shoes are a bit narrow for me, so especially one foot easily feels a bit cramped and starts giving me twinges. With the right shoes I'm hoping the Keos will be better for long-distance riding.

USA standards for pap smears are every three years if you've had I think two normal ones in a row.

I've only ever ridden Look/Look compatible since 1987, so I can't comment on switching. In 1987, there was Look, the Look-knockoff Mavic that I had, and Time, which "looked" and worked just similar to Look but wasn't compatible in size and shape.

Getting into it is pretty similar to getting into a toe clip. You don't have to flip the pedal over; it hangs in entry position. Just slide your toe and it clicks right in. If you should miss and send the pedal spinning - which does still happen to me sometimes - that's when you have to stop the pedal from spinning before you can get in, but you still don't have to "flip it over," you just have to make it stop spinning.

I guess compared to metal cleats they do wear quickly, but having never ridden anything else, I just consider the cleats a wear item. I get about 3K miles out of the right cleat - the one I unclip at stop signs - and twice that from the left. I don't use cleat covers, and considering how much of the wear obviously happens when I'm unclipping just one foot, I'm not sure how much benefit I'd get from covering them (other than keeping mud out of the cleats).

They are NOT easy to walk in though, and I can't recommend running in them at all. I'm not sure how much it's the cleats that are slippery, and how much it is that they just protrude from the shoe. If your shoe has the little rubber walking pads at toe and heel, that helps a lot, but still, if you're on any kind of uneven surface or stairs, you're going to be balancing on nothing but the cleat, and it doesn't have a lot of traction. So I don't know how big the transition areas can be ... but I guess they wouldn't be my first choice for tri shoes.

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Originally Posted by crazycanuck

Kg..sorry I don't have Look pedals..

whine alert

K...Is there any danger for a normal healthy person who hasn't dropped dead yet, to have to have a pap smear? I really can't be bothered visiting the dr for one...nothing abnormal on my last one...Do we really have to have them every year???

I have another thyroid blood test due in 2 months so i'll go then...

Whine over

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I only have to have them every 2 years because I've been clear for years and have no danger factors.

Hmmm, well for what it's worth, the pedals I have now flip so I'm used to that part.

Any there any other pedals/cleats with float that aren't hard to walk in?

Clipless pedal discussions on Thread Drift? What's the world coming to? :eek:

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Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

Clipless pedal discussions on Thread Drift? What's the world coming to? :eek:

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:D

Back adrift, my BF started his new job yesterday! It's been a long haul. He was laid off last Sept. The new job is with the same employer, in a new location. I'm back to being a restaurant widow. Don't get me wrong, at times I'll miss him, but right now, I love having the place to myself!

I finally found a pair of shoes to wear to Scott's wedding reception. I was desperate and went to Nordstrom's this morning. Between my miniscule feet, the fact that one foot is almost half a size bigger than the other, and a smallish bunion on the bigger foot, I was going nuts trying to find a pair of dressy sandals or sling backs. The biggest problem is that all of the dressy shoes had 5 inch heels. I even tried on some of those high, high heels, but I could barely stand up in them! I ended up getting a pair of alligator sling backs with 2.5 inch heels, that will have more utility than the silk sandals with the cheapie looking clasp.
Now I just have to prepare myself for meeting all of my DIL's family. I know I will spend most of the time next weekend with my mouth clamped shut.... I already told my other son that he will be my escape hatch!

I bought a new (used) RIDICULOUS pick-up truck:

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/img_po...r_id=279762692

It's RIDICULOUS for a grandma like me to own a truck that has silver stars on the wheels, but it was a good deal, and it's to go with my new business venture:

That's a wood-fired brick oven on a trailer. Those bricks you see are 114 years old--gleaned from the old smokehouse on my property. I'm making pizza. Yesterday, my son made banana bread in it, too. I'm going to learn how to make roasted corn, too. :)

Karen

I suppose you could paint the wheels :)
what are you doing with business? catering?
another bicycling related q? two of my buddies are going to attempt a century(thier first), They've invited me along, but I'm not sure If I'll enough time this weekend to do it. thet'll be doing it solo(not part of an organized ride)

What a great oven! :D

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Originally Posted by Tuckervill

That's a wood-fired brick oven on a trailer. Those bricks you see are 114 years old--gleaned from the old smokehouse on my property. I'm making pizza. Yesterday, my son made banana bread in it, too. I'm going to learn how to make roasted corn, too. :)

Karen

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When's the TE party at your place? ;);)

Cool pizza business idea! :)


Things are busy at my house....music gigs and lessons, garden is exploding with lettuce and radishes, honeybees are multiplying like mad, patent jobs with deadlines coming in fast, can't even get time to ride my bike...! :eek: But I sure can't complain. :)

Send me some honeybees.

It's been almost two months since I've been back home and I have yet to see one honeybee. It's very upsetting. Even though I know beekeepers in the area have been getting hit by CCD for several years now, I never noticed a decline on my property, until now - and now, they're just gone. :(

I have a feeling this summer is going to go by way too fast now that I have my kayak.