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[RC] re: Stirrup safety and comfort - Cindy CollinsI ride in e-z ride stirrups with a solid safety cage. My feet are too busted up to ride long distance (over 10 miles) in standard English stirrups. Since I often ride in running shoes, I feel the safety cages are really important. I used to use the open weave cages, but after an awful BigHorn 100 experience with them (A branch or tall sage brush stuck through the open cage while I was on foot hiking up Cedar Canyon two years ago. I never saw it happen cause I was just trying to breathe! Anyhow, apparently, when this happened it pulled my whole stirrup and leather off with it. When I got to the top...I was missing a stirrup and leather on one side. Although people searched and searched, we could not find it. I was not able to ride through the rest of the canyons with one stirrup and so walked into the next vet check and was over-time.) I have gone to the solid biothane cages. I am really happy with them. Hope this helps. CC =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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