I agree with everything Deacon Patrick says. They are spendy and I have them only on my Joe. They've been there long enough that I rarely think about making the foot-position adjustment. The differences in the pedal size "disappears" when I'm riding, which I think is the ideal.
Jay On Friday, December 8, 2017 at 4:21:12 PM UTC-8, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > 1. How do you like your Catalysts? > Love em. > > 2. How have they changed your riding? > More comfortable and solid contact with the pedal, fully engaged arch in > my foot. Result: stronger, more comfortable pedaling on climbs. As other’s > have noted, they do move the foot forward, and this creates overlap with my > front wheel, but since going fixed it’s a near non-issue because fixed is > so much smoother that I needn’t “side steer” because I easily hold a line > (straight or curved as needed) because of the flywheel effect. > > 3. Do they make your bike feel easier to pedal down the road? > Down the road? Minimal difference. Up the road? Absolutely. > > 4. Have they helped alleviate any foot probs you had with regular pedals? > I didn’t have foot problems other than pedaling mostly with the outside of > my foot rather than my whole foot. It wasn’t a problem, just what was > doable with the pedals on the market at the time. > > Yes, I lowered my seat, by about a half inch. > > With abandon, > Patrick -- 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.
