MKS MT E Pedals

Advantages: Very well priced entry to SPD pedalling.
Disadvantages: Cumbersome, heavy and insensitive for road bking.

...********************************************************************* * ( there should be enough fodder there for some good puns in your comments! ). The pictures supplied by the manufacturers illustrate perfectly the thick rubber soles with treads that would delight anyone who regularly climbs through their local sheughs. These are also highly useful for those young males who like to leave very noticeable footprints wherever they go - e.g. kitchen floors. But they are hardly the stuff of honed athletes racing at high speed on carbon bikes on the Tour de France! 3 For people who like to be the centre of attention in their local gym. ********************************************************************* *** These were bought for me to enjoy more fully, my weekly spin class at David Lloyd's. That was the role specified to the supplier, and they were his recommendation. I could not be more noticeable if I arrived in a pair... Read review

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Advantages: Frame, upgrade potential
Disadvantages: pedals, and other components

...The first thing before you go anywhere with this bike is to get rid of the pedals! Weak pedals really destroy a good solid Aluminium (and I don't always love aluminium) frame. Pedals are what drive the bike and I strongly believe that these after a good frame are the most important component. Plastic pedals? for off road. I just read the previous comments on this bike and found out its good for on road commuting having never done any commuting ever I wouldn’t know, it would make sense though. Before I go on I better just say a few words about me, so you get where I’m coming from. I am one very aggressive mountain biker and road racer. I put my bikes through everything my body can go through; this is probably why I’ve just come out of hospital and why I’ve destroyed one of my previous bikes. This means I soon found the floors... Read review

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Advantages: Slick and user-friendly. Protected from the elements. Only little adjustment needed
Disadvantages: Less ratios than dérailleur gears

...I only just posted an opinion on Shimano cycle gears a month or so and here I am again, posting another. “What gives?” I hear those of you that actually give ‘a monkey’s’ asking. Ah well, the first time it was because I am building myself a new bike. Now, it’s because my two sheds don’t look anywhere near full yet, and because I can’t turn down a tasty bargain, courtesy of e-Bay. Anyway, some people are three-car families; I’m a three-biker, so what? Now then, what’s so special about these Shimano Nexus gears that would divert me from my aim to build a bike? Well, chiefly, they are hub gears (he said, expecting you all to say “Oh well, that explains it all then!). Oh yes; AND they have a nice bike attached to them. HUB GEARS IN GENERAL I’ve always had a thing about the good old Sturmey-Archer 3-speed hub gear that many people... Read review

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