{"id":3135,"date":"2010-02-01T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2013-01-26T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T11:57:13","slug":"365154-power-grips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/365154-power-grips\/","title":{"rendered":"365:154 (power grips)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I bought these pedal straps last year, and they were the best investment ever.  I can&#8217;t handle clipless pedals, because I am a giant klutz, and toe clips are not particularly useful if you can&#8217;t tighten them because you have to brake every two blocks because you&#8217;re riding in city traffic (and you&#8217;re a giant klutz), so these were a good in-between.  you slide your foot in on the diagonal, and when you straighten it, the strap tightens and holds your foot in place.  as a bonus, you can wear any shoes.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC_1520.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought these pedal straps last year, and they were the best investment ever. I can&#8217;t handle clipless pedals, because I am a giant klutz, and toe clips are not particularly useful if you can&#8217;t tighten them because you have to brake every two blocks because you&#8217;re riding in city traffic (and you&#8217;re a giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[40,10],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cycling","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-Oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5814,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}