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Re: [RC] broken EZ boots - steelsidedownWhile we're on this... Anyone have an idea what I did to get the heel straps to break? Jen ---- sherman <sherman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Just wondering, when you break a buckle, are you using the cotter pins? I too snapped a brand new curvy type buckle, but thought it happened because I hadn't yet been committed to putting in the cotter pin on every boot on every ride (I do now). If the boot has screws holding the buckle on, they are very easy to replace. Regarding the cables, I do think that the cable has to be very tight, but not very, very tight (:>) Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. I have snapped cables that I had to stand on with all my weight in order to close them (very very tight), rather than just push hard with one foot (very tight). Kathy Lucy wrote & Kathy wrote: ...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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lucy Chaplin Trumbull =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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