always brings to mind the "iso" pedals seen in several rebour drawings from the late 40s on through the 50s...
http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
-joel
>These pedals were a great idea and still are, although theyb are strap/clip
>Shimano compared a 'regular' pedal to pedaling in high heel shoes compared to
>theirs that put the pedal platform below, in 'sling' style.
>
>Shimano was by no means the first to discover this improved dynamic. Harlan
>Meyer of HiE Engineering made some pedals that worked with this
>feature/benefit, and there were others.
>Still more acknowledged the advantage by striving for lower and lower
>surface-to-pivot dimensionality.
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i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
after she got that bicycle...