Toe clips on standard quill pedals are what I’m using. These are what you see on Track bikes, and some road.
First I would like to say I’m not an extremely experienced cokerist yet, but training. Took the new pedals around the block for a bit, they were very nice.
Toe clips offer alot when riding, at least for me. Great for climbing, somewhat easy to get out of if need be and your foot doesn’t move at all. Really nice when spinning, I’ve had my feat slip off once, it wasn’t pretty.
I can see potential for a really bad wreck with these if things go bad, so be careful. Getting into the clips is the hardest, I mount with one and slip in the other before I start, I’m going to have to work on that, it’s quite the trick.
I would recommend a try at least.
I’ll report back if I completely eat it or anything like that. I’m picking up a helmet tomorrow.
Once I get some Mg1 ti’s I’m going to outfit them with some toe clips, or half clips. With pins still on one side it would be great for xc and rough road’s as well.
For a while I thought you meant you had clipless pedals on and I thought you were crazy, but then I looked up toe clips and saw it’s just the plastic stirrups with straps… not so crazy. I’m considering outfitting some cheap plastics and old shoe with magnets and steel plates and putting them on my coker should be an interesting experiment. Let me know how the clips go for you.
Haha, I was thinking the same thing, saying, " Keee-rist, this dude’s crazy."
I still think fixing your feet to uni pedals in any fashion is a bit nutty, but at least toe clips are realistic. Full clipless on a coker would be taking insanity to a whole 'nother level,
in my experience i find its quite the opposite, clip in pedals and shoes are heaps safer once you get the hang of unclipping (i had them on my bike for ages before i attempted using them on my uni)
The toe clips (the ones with the strap that goes over you foot) is much more dangerous if your using them properly. if the strap is loose then yes theyre easier to get out of but then that negates all reason for using them because your feet move around.
i always use clipin pedals when im doing any XC MUni or road riding although i must admit i dont use them for technical downhill muni anymore, ive tried it quite a few times and although i havent had any bad crashes it always seems a little intimidating at the top of a rock garden knowing your cliped in
In my experience on bikes I can’t imagine wanting clips and straps on a uni. I have had a bunch of bad falls when I couldn’t get my feet out of the straps fast enough. I have never had a situation when I couldn’t rip my cleat out of a clipless pedal. I will say that in most of my time with clips and straps I also had cleats, and so it was a bit more secure than a plain shoe.
I too would think that clips would be safer than straps, and I plan to at least try some clip-in shoes and pedals, but you said that you’ve herd that it is easier to bail out of clips than straps on a bike.
my concern would be that on a bike, you would be falling to the side, whereas on a unicycle, it would obviously be a forward or backward fall. If your feet are behind you and the unicycle is pulling your feet back… do you think it would be the same as bailing off of a bike where your knees are always bent and your legs always in a neutral position?
hopefully I will live to inform you of my experienced experiment and analysis…
I recognized that. Since I don’t have hundreds of dollars to get the shoes and pedals needed, I’ll stick to my straps for now. If I wreck badly, I’ll get rid of them. So far they are working out quite nice.
ahh… but i am fortunate enough to have connections…
a racing friend of mine gave me some egg beaters and I work at a bike shop and ill get shoes for cheep.
otherwise you could get sealed pedals for $50 and shoes for around 70+…
Kai Martin did RAGBRAI (ride across Iowa) on SPD’s a few year ago. His average speed went way up (averaging over 18mph) using them. He said he felt safer since he didn’t have to worry about flying off the pedals at high rpms.
I have tried eggbeaters on my 24" muni a bit and it scares the heck out of me. If you are so inclined to go clipless, go to blueskycycling.com and check out their combo kits. Usually they have sales where you can get cheap shoes and crank bros pedals for 80-110 and SPDs for 60-90 with halfway decent shoes
make it an electro magnet in your shoes, and a wire running up each leg and out of your pockets, and have like tin foil on your seat, and when the wires coming out of your pocket touch the foil, it completes the circuit and the shoes will stick to the platforms, and when you fall off, the wires will leave the foil and the circuit will break and the magnets will let go of the metal!!
that would be cool! probably heavy but cool! haha I think the prototype would just be some strong industrial magnets(maybe with 25 pounds of holding force) and some steel plates, the plates would be on the pedals and the magnets would be in the soles of the shoes(well in a hole in the bottom anyway)
Keee-rist, this dude’s crazy."
