if you have a sore foot, your arch is flexing too much - some of the energy you want to go into the pedals is going into straining your foot. Sounds like you may need a good arch support. With toe clips or clipless you load the ball of your foot and a bike shoe with a shank is everything to avoid pain. An advantage of platforms is you can usually get away with just about any shoe, because you can move your foot around on the pedal. I have long ice-skate feet and really like longer platforms.
On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 9:09:58 PM UTC-5, Lungimsam wrote: > > Trying to solve my sore foot conundrum on longer rides and the more > research I do, the more conflicting info I get about whether or not > the shoe matters, or the pedal surface does (this is for platforms, not > clipless pedals). > > *Weigh in and tell me if you think that with the right kind of platform, > you can ride any street shoe you want, no matter how good or atrocious the > sole is.* > *Or, if its the shoe that counts.* > > Interested to know if there really is an answer to this before deciding to > sink money into either shoes or pedals first. Experimenting with bike > componentry gets expensive fast. > > In Just Ride, the author says its the pedal that counts only. Any footwear > works with a good platform pedal. > > *No need to mention the pedal/shoe as others are weighing in on that on > another thread here.* > *No need to mention strength of feet, as we have already covered that > issue, and that is a different matter for debate.* > > I remember riding the last three centuries on my MKS Touring pedals. All > with different shoes. > The first pair left me hurting (Old Nike Sneakers). > The second pair left me hurting (LLBean Mocks). > The third pair didn't hurt at all on that third century, but now they do > when I ride with them (New Nike sneakers). > I do get other minor foot complaints outside of century riding. So I think > a pedal/shoe change is in order. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
