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Re: [RC] broken EZ boots - steelsidedown

While 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.




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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
 



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