Feb 7th, 2008
Pedal Error - how not to ride a unicycle
For those not familiar with bike-geek stuff, this is not how a pedal is meant to look.The spiky bit on the top is meant to be bolted to the sole of your shoe. Then you can twist your shoe and it becomes unclipped from the pedal.
But when one of the bolts fails then it becomes impossible to twist the cleat and your shoe is fixed pretty securely to the pedal, however you wiggle it.
Error.
Luckily it was only a few miles away from home.
P.S. Using clip-in (also misleadingly called “clipless”) pedals on a unicycle is ‘a power for the hills’ and generally a pretty cool thing. Why I didn’t try this longer ago I don’t know. But it has risks.
That’s brilliant. I’ve never seen a cleat fail like that, they often wear until it’s impossible to unclip with much the same result.
There isn’t enough body armour in the world for me to attempt SPDs on a Unicycle
Paul