Got into a new vs retro argument last night with a guy who couldn't believe I rode a 24 year old Fuji with topeclips no less. Among other things he said that one couldn't rotate the cranks in a perfect circle with toeclips. I said one could but that wasn't the way people really pedaled anyway. So here's the question to the group: How does one actually pedal a bicycle? Is the force primarily on the top/downstroke with a little help on the back/up stroke?
Anybody?
As an aside, when I told him that his CAAD 4 probably wouldn't make it to his 30th birthday he shrugged and said, "buy another one, dude"
Hate it when I'm called 'dude'
Scott "Dude" Smith
LA