Numb toes. Any sports medicine experts here?

[GLC1968]

People wear special shoes when they use regular pedals, then? "Carbon-soled"? This is all Greek to me!

Actually, not usually, no. I wear carbon soled shoes because they are the stiffest and I have bad feet. For me, even with clipless and cycling shoes, I was having trouble. If I'm riding distance, then I need super stiff shoes.

In your case (and for most normal people), carbon isn't necessary for comfort. A normal bike shoe with a stiff sole will work wonders, so when you go to clipless and get the shoes that work with them, you'll be fine.

In the meantime, you could try finding some shoes that are stiffer to use with your flat pedals. I know that some people actually ride in hiking boots in the winter (with flat pedals) for the warmth and the stiffer sole. You could also get a pair of mountain biking shoes and wear them without cleats on your flat pedals too. Then when you go clipless, you'll already be used to the shoes (and you can just add cleats to the mountain bike shoe). Or - find the newest, stiffest pair of athletic shoes you own and use those for now.

[KnottedYet]

Dredging this up because I found a great series of forum discussions on cyclists' feet and thought there might be some interest.

http://www.podiatry-arena.com/podiat...ad.php?t=14758

There are several cycling threads, go back to the forum home page and scroll down a ways, there is a shortcut topic navigation thingy.

http://podiatry-arena.com/

[redrhodie]

I'm glad you revived this thread Knot, because I've been wondering about stacysue, and couldn't remember her name. She was the one who had the psycho neighbor stalking her as she rode.

I hope she'll let us know she's okay.

ETA: those links look great. I've had some foot issues myself recently.