What are the cutoffs on the 401K? How much vert?
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Rumor has it, 23,000 if your under 50 
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Or riding them barefoot? Yeah, it happened far more often than it should have. 
But aren’t studded MTB pedals worse? They look really painful…
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The beauty of those pedals was that the little teeth didn’t improve shoe traction in any noticeable way compared to the block pedals that were also popular at the time. Functionally, the only purpose they served was to shred skin and bruise the shit out of shins.
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Depends do you want like 2 bone deep cuts (mtb/bmx flats) or do you want 20 burns down your shin (the old pedals)
the scar on my shin says the mtb/bmx flats are far worse.
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That’s where I was going. My wife is afraid of clipless pedals on anything but her Peloton, so I put the stock aluminum studded pedals from my Fat Boy. Those studs are lethal!
AND…
She gets her old toe clip shoes stuck on the studs and almost hates them more than clipless. I did see a pair of pedals that came with small replacement studs that were a rounded point rather than the ghastly sharp rapiers that the studs pull off very painfully well. I do have a couple scars on the left inside calf from an encounter with those studs on a loaner bike. Hurt? OH YEAH! Didn’t bleed as much as I thought it would somehow (like a face cut does), but damn hurt for a couple of days, and left a few scars to go with all the others I have acquired. But she says she likes not having clipless and cleats, so it has to be that way. 
Looks a little silly on a $4k Di2 bike, but happy wife… It’s her bike, I just maintain it.
I did try to sell her on Speed Plays with the light action cleats. Nope… (She’s got light action SPD-SL pedals on the Pton though)
Back to the previous post: Didn’t they call those ‘rat trap’ pedals? They pretty much chewed up anything they came into contact with.
I liked them, years ago. They were doing more of the history shtick, and it was great to hear the history of history. Now, at least the last time I listened to much of their coverage, it wasn’t so that as much as just random advert type stuff. At least that’s what I thought at the time. But if they did the history of history stuff again, it might get a little old. But it was like listening to coverage of a NASCAR race. There isn’t a lot that can be said really. ‘And here they come around the track again, and there they go!’…
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But… She said ‘anything’…
Like the new college student being given a credit card ‘for emergencies’. But I put it to the people here: at midnight on a Friday night, running out of pizza and beer IS an emergency!
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Why don’t bicycles fall over? Because they are two-tired 
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shouldnt this be
“why do bikes fall over”
when im too tired i also cant stand up
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