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[RC] broken EZ boots - Lucy Trumbull

Kathy Mayeda:
...I've broken Easyboot buckles on a ride more than once! 
 (But they didn't fall off either despite that.)

I currently have a whole passel of dead EZ boots with
broken cables. Most, of course, are the old-style-much-
more-difficult-to-replace-type cables. <sigh> They tend
to break right as I snap down the buckle.

But it's making me think - how come I keep breaking
cables? Am I putting the boots on too tight? I thought
that unless you had to stand on the buckle to get it shut,
the boot wasn't on tight enough? Am I being over-zealous?

This weekend, travelling over some very rocky ground
at a walk, the tongue (if that's what it's called?) on the
buckle snapped in half, so there was just a nub left. The
boot stayed on, but I added it to the dead boot pile.
(It's too bad, that was my one-n-only new-style curvy
buckle boot too...)

I'm going to invest in a pair of upsidedown buckles
and hopefully it'll solve the problem of broken buckles
and cables, but in the meantime, I'm going to have to
get a handful of old-style cables to mend all the dead
ones.


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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsietee AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, CA
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