Re: [RBW] Minimalist cycling shoe article.

[Garth]

Lee, in shoes terms, besides what I wrote above, the term minimal refers to 
it's structure style, being obviously "minimal" in varying degrees. The most 
minimal being like a SoftStar with a 2mm street sole. No padding, no arch 
things, no board layer, as close as you can get to wearing a leather sock with 
2mm rubber glues on the bottom as you can make in something that is durable. 
The minimum stack height, how thick hey are overall ranges from 5-6mm on up to 
the teens. 

The most minmal ones can rolled up like a pastry and twisted and turned any way 
since they are so flexible.Again, think sock with a  very very thin layer of 
rubber glued on.  

Yes, the term minimal has nothing to do with the shape around the toes or 
widths, any shoes of any structure style with or with out a raised heel can be 
very wide or narrow and pointed or shaped like a foot outlne, think Birkenstock 
for example.

Again, minmimal is just a term to direct your thoughts to that style of shoes, 
it's not an absolute in reference to any one style or way of life. It's like 
any word, what does it mean ? Look it up in the dictionary and you are referred 
to more words, so you look those up, and they refer you to more words still. It 
never ends if you are looking to pin amd limit a word. Life doesn't need 
labels. 

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Re: [RBW] Minimalist cycling shoe article.

[Lee Legrand]

Hey Lum,

Can you explain to me what you mean by minimalist?  My first reaction to
the word is minimal requirements for living and survival but you seem to
use it in another way.  How does minimal relate to shoe's or shoe's with no
heel?  Technically any style of shoe can be considered minimal or having a
pair that does double duty for things is living minimal.  Just trying to
get a understanding from your view.

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, lum gim fong  wrote:

> Absolutely nothing wrong with regular shoes for cycling. My Nike's got me
> thru all my centuries and 200k with ease.  I just posted the article
> because I saw it as akin to Grant's articles about bike hacks, and it
> mentioned a minimal shoe (for the minimalists here), and it also discussed
> Catalyst pedals which I know are of interest to some here.
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Re: [RBW] Minimalist cycling shoe article.

[lum gim fong]

Absolutely nothing wrong with regular shoes for cycling. My Nike's got me thru 
all my centuries and 200k with ease.  I just posted the article because I saw 
it as akin to Grant's articles about bike hacks, and it mentioned a minimal 
shoe (for the minimalists here), and it also discussed Catalyst pedals which I 
know are of interest to some here.

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Re: [RBW] Minimalist cycling shoe article.

[Jim Bronson]

What's wrong with normal shoes and flat pedals?  I have used that
combination for Randonneuring rides up to 1000Km!  At the end of 1000K my
feet felt great, and I finished the ride with the group.  I have done a
1000K with pinchy cycling shoes also and at the end my feet were miserable.

I quit cycling shoes 5 or 6 years ago.  Not going back.  It's hard for me
to find a downside to normal shoes.  I don't participate in any weight
weeny email groups or web forums so there's nobody to tell me I'm wrong
about it, and my Rando friends are very pragmatic about things, so they'd
never mention it.

My current cycling shoes are some Costco Kirkland tennis style shoes that I
got for $19, I think.  I like these ones because the soles are much tougher
than some of the other cheap shoes I tried, ergo the spikes are not tearing
them up.  And the pedal is the Vice VP-001 that Rivendell used to sell as
the Thin Gripster, I believe was the name.

Of course, YMMV

-Jim

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:39 AM, lum gim fong 
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> https://naturalfootgear.com/blogs/education/17861648-cycling-shoe-surgery
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Re: [RBW] Minimalist cycling shoe article.

[Addison Wilhite]

I found the article strange.  Here's what you can do to your too small
shoe...or, you could just buy the right size.  I say this having worked at
a healthy foot/shoe store for years in college.  Weird.


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On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Lee Legrand  wrote:

> I do not think I would destroy a shoe for a wider box.  Cycling shoes are
> pretty expensive up front and cutting them like that only means I will have
> to replace them sooner.  The other thing is that cycling is different than
> walking but he is applying foot health for walking unto cycling and cycling
> probably uses different foot muscles.  I plan to get a wide box toe gym
> shoe one day but I do not think that translate to cycling since those are
> different activities.  Like a football player doing powerlifting to become
> more explosive.  You have to train the movement to get better at it, not do
> something else in hopes that it offers benefit to somethings else.
>
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Re: [RBW] Minimalist cycling shoe article.

[Lee Legrand]

I do not think I would destroy a shoe for a wider box.  Cycling shoes are
pretty expensive up front and cutting them like that only means I will have
to replace them sooner.  The other thing is that cycling is different than
walking but he is applying foot health for walking unto cycling and cycling
probably uses different foot muscles.  I plan to get a wide box toe gym
shoe one day but I do not think that translate to cycling since those are
different activities.  Like a football player doing powerlifting to become
more explosive.  You have to train the movement to get better at it, not do
something else in hopes that it offers benefit to somethings else.

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> https://naturalfootgear.com/blogs/education/17861648-cycling-shoe-surgery
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[RBW] Minimalist cycling shoe article.

[lum gim fong]

https://naturalfootgear.com/blogs/education/17861648-cycling-shoe-surgery

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