On 8/17/05, dgdyer@cox.net <dgdyer@cox.net> wrote:
>"Low heel" was
> perhaps not the best choice of words -- what I meant to
> convey was that "ankling," by extending the toe of the foot
> through the bottom of the cycle is no longer thought to be
> as efficient or powerful.
>From my reading I understood that this kind of vintage ankling,
reaching down with the toe through the bottom of the cycle developed
in the century before last as a way to allow one to ride a larger size
wheel on an Ordinary.
Mitch Harris
Little Rock Canyon, Utah