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Insightdriver wrote:
Hi Nev,

Seems you aren't familiar with mountain bike systems. It is my observation that road systems are not technically superior to mountain bike systems for average folks. For racing, there is a difference, since minute changes that aid a racer are justified. Not in the real world, however. Frankly shoe weight and pedal weight are very, very low on the importance-scale of weight-weenies. I would suspect that in a time-trial, with all things being equal except for the pedal system, I doubt there would be a result difference that is significant. In 20 Km, for example, a one-second difference is as much as a weak breeze blowing the wrong way a couple of times during the time trial.

I am not dissing road systems. This is why I said there are different systems because there are different people with different points of view. What I do take issue with is oft-stated comments that seem reasonable, but really don't make a difference in the real world.

Just for me, I like being able to walk around comfortably in my bike shoes. That's just me and it does not say anything against a road system and carbon fiber shoes. Frankly I don't think there is any science that says a stiff shoe is more efficient than a flexible shoe. Our feet are flexible, after all and we can run and walk because of that flexibility. I suspect marketers have come up with stiffness as a reason to justify spending $500 for a pair of biking shoes.

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Hi Insightdriver,

What are you talking about?
What don't I know about mtb systems?
What performance assertion did I make about superiority of one system over another?

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