My first (and last) attempt at going clipless.

Anonymous

Bustacapp wrote:

Carbonator wrote:

I would have thought that one of the points of this site was to take advice from people, not call them a snob for giving a reasonable opinion on cheaply made, badly performing products.

I was reading your post with mild agreement until I read the above. What part of this is a 'reasonable opinion' :

philvantwo wrote:
Oh dear Mr buster! Did all this take place on your halfords bike?

As a result I now have you earmarked as an elitist snob too.

You seem to have one big chip on your shoulder. Maybe cycling is not for you. People trying to do it properly and better (improve) seem to wind you up.

I cannot speak for philvantwo but I took his comment (ok it was outwardly very rude and snobby) to be a dig at your insistence to take sides on some kind of decent/mid price v questionable quality/poor VFM/super cheap kit war.

As for being a snob, I see it that there are two ways you can be a bike snob......

One is to be personally fussy about bikes and kit for yourself, which I think is a good thing and I am definitely snobby about bike stuff for myself.

The other is to look down and abuse others that have less or do things in a lesser way, which is a bad thing and not at all what I am like. That is more what people think of when they hear the word snob though IMO.

The problem on here is that if anyone mentions doing anything because they are the first type of bike snob, they instantly get accused of being the second type

MountainMonster

Bustacapp wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

You are an interesting one bro.

MountainMonster wrote:

getting offended by people telling you the stuff you bought was crap

The bit I got 'offended' about was the completely unrelated comment implying my bike (same as yours) was crap.

And that offends you? I'm darn happy with my Carrera, it has new wheels which cost more than the bike, but who cares? You ask for people's opinions and then get offended because you don't like hearing you did something wrong. Why post then?

Bustacapp

Carbonator wrote:

You seem to have one big chip on your shoulder. Maybe cycling is not for you. People trying to do it properly and better (improve) seem to wind you up.

This is the point. You see splashing cash on expensive clobber and carbon spoked bikes as 'doing it properly'. So if you see me out on the road on my trusty 12kg Carrera clad from head to toe in Lidl's finest you must be thinking 'he's not doing it 'properly' or 'trying to improve'.

I see it all the time when out. I had to laugh the other day when I saw a fullkitwanker pushing his shiny new Pinarello over a hill!

Bustacapp

MountainMonster wrote:

And that offends you? I'm darn happy with my Carrera, it has new wheels which cost more than the bike, but who cares? You ask for people's opinions and then get offended because you don't like hearing you did something wrong. Why post then?

I suggest you read the thread properly. And just for the record I'm really not interested in how expensive your wheels were.

letap73

You're not helping yourself here. FWIW I had a similar issue to you - fortunately with one shoe only, the cleat had gradually worked loose - I promptly tightened the cleats on both shoes with as much torque as I could muster - I check the cleats before every ride now!

Velonutter

I'm locking this thread before it gets out of control, sorry lads get out on your bikes and enjoy the sunshine 8)