I can't speak for these specific pedals, but I rode Grip Kings for more than a year and spent almost the entire past year on Raceface Atlas - both oversquare pedals. Also VP-001 for a couple of years, which are exactly square. And 40 years on cage pedals. Right now my go-fast bike has Nuevo Wide with Ale toeclips and Binda straps. The whole point of the cage pedlals, clips and straps is to ride on the ball of your foot. A good 60 mile ride in the right shoes, and you're ok. A 30 mile ride in the wrong shoes and your arches will be strained. It's not because my arches are weak as Deac has argued before, it's because without actual bicycle shoes with shanks, too much pedaling energy goes into straining your arches instead of into the road. .
With flat pedals, I always begin with my arches centered over the axle, and have ridden over 80 miles in shoes without shanks and no foot strain. In my case, the shoes are Merrells. However, it is also nice you can move your foot forward or back on the pedal to ride on the ball of your foot part of the time (especially on switchbacks where you would kick the front wheel), and I've even found a spin where kicking heel first uses a different tendon combination. So I'll generally say I like flat pedals with normal shoes, and I like solid-shank riding shoes for the whole sit-high over the pedals drop-bar riding position. On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 9:09:56 AM UTC-5, Chris Lampe 2 wrote: > > I would be interested in hearing anyone's experience with these pedals. I > have issues with Morton's Neuroma and I can't decide if the forward foot > placement of this pedal would put more pressure on the neuroma and make it > worse or the fully supported arch would take enough pressure off the > neuroma to result in less pain. > > >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
