Brace your pedals - What does this mean?
drahcir
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Afternoon
When I was out enjoying the glorious weather today and going for a ride this morning. I spent a bit of time riding with two other cyclists. Just before they turned off one of them sped off up the hill we were going up and on his way back down past me told me I needed to "brace my pedals". I'm not entirely sure what he meant by this, but I took it to mean I was riding too flat footed, which I was, and needed to angle my toes down to get more power. It seemed to work and made the rest of the hill less of a struggle to get up and from the look at my average speed from that point on they were definitley better than I expected! Have I got my understanding of what he meant right? Of course I may have mis-heard him as I was suffering a bit on the hill at the time...
Rode 72k (if my iphone gps thing is to be believed) this morning and really enjoyed it, I did run out of steam towards the end but did it in 2 hours 50 minutes. It was only my 6th time out on a road bike and my furthest ride by over 30k so I'm really happy with that!
Rich
When I was out enjoying the glorious weather today and going for a ride this morning. I spent a bit of time riding with two other cyclists. Just before they turned off one of them sped off up the hill we were going up and on his way back down past me told me I needed to "brace my pedals". I'm not entirely sure what he meant by this, but I took it to mean I was riding too flat footed, which I was, and needed to angle my toes down to get more power. It seemed to work and made the rest of the hill less of a struggle to get up and from the look at my average speed from that point on they were definitley better than I expected! Have I got my understanding of what he meant right? Of course I may have mis-heard him as I was suffering a bit on the hill at the time...
Rode 72k (if my iphone gps thing is to be believed) this morning and really enjoyed it, I did run out of steam towards the end but did it in 2 hours 50 minutes. It was only my 6th time out on a road bike and my furthest ride by over 30k so I'm really happy with that!
Rich
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Never heard that phrase before ! Well done on the 72km. Thats impressive for a beginner !0
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Thanks, for replying I had been out and about a bit on a cr*ppy raliegh mountain bike over the summer but never more than 16k and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't break 40 minutes! The first time out on the 16k route on the road bike and I was 6 minutes better than my best time on the old bike!
The phrase did seem a bit odd, so it does make me wonder if I mis-heard him!
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No idea about braceing pedals, could it have been "grease" your pedals. Are you squeking up the hills.?0
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Probably just as in 'brace yourself' - to get yourself psyched up for something nasty! In this case, you've got a climb/ some work to do!Faster than a tent.......0
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Maybe it was "arrange your petals"? Do you grow tulips?
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Don't think I was squeaking up the hill, my knee's may have been creaking a bit but I don't think it was that.
I was biking around South Norfolk and the hills we have don't tend to last too long so not sure about brace yourself either!
Hmmm "arrange your petals" perhaps he was suggesting I'd be better off taking up a new hobby and putting the bike back in the shed...
Absolutely no idea what he meant then oh well, I'm sure I'll survive not knowing! Thanks for the suggestions guy's!
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Never heard anyone say something like that, my guess is most likely just mis-understood him.
Could have been saying the climb was almost over, and that the downhill would be fun. Said that in cars a few times before hitting really curvy sections of road, but who knows.0
