Quote Originally Posted by Aint Doody View Post
Today 4 of us were riding together. One of the ladies had her tire to blow totally. It had a gaping rip in it. The other 3 of us hopped on bikes to get to a convenience store about 3/4 mile away. She started walking. She has MB Sidis. Amazingly the man in our group fashioned a boot out of a piece of a Coke can and some strong tape! A dollar wouldn't have worked. She said a couple of times she was soooo glad not to have on road shoes. The boot held long enough for us to get back to her car--6 miles.
A friend of mine had a similar thing happen to her. She was on a really nice, fast bike-only road that no cars can get to. She had to walk over 2 miles in her socks. I think I found road shoes to be too limiting for me, and making me more vulnerable.