Mamba time!

Test ride! The pedals work exactly as hoped. The cleat is as far back as possible on the shoe, putting the support from the pedal under the forward ball of the foot all the way back to the rear of the arch. Success!

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Hot Mamba, part deux

To finish off the new pedals, I ordered two different sets of tools, one for on-the-road repairs and one for the home shop. The cleats are mounted on using Torx-drive (star) bolts, T-10, and my computer repair set of Torx drivers was just not up to the task of busting them loose (yay Loktite!). Two […]

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Hot Mamba!!

I must confess that, before my stroke, when I rode a standard diamond frame mountain bike, I never thought about pedals. Never. I didn’t need to, you know? Most cyclists don’t think about them, I’m pretty sure, because they aren’t an issue on an upright bike. They’re just there, the place where your feet go […]

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