{"id":19,"date":"2010-06-23T22:55:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-06-29T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T07:33:23","slug":"shoes-arrive-and-another-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Shoes arrive and another ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Northwave vertigo pro sbs shoes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realcyclist.com\/images\/items\/medium\/NTW\/NTW0017\/BLA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"97\" \/>My new Northwave vertigo pro shoes arrived today, courtesy of the next door neighbour who signed for them yesterday when I was at work. They seem a pretty good fit, so the Look pedals have gone on the bike finally (why can you never find the right allen key when you need it?). I also fixed up something else pretty cool and custom &#8211; an auxillary iPhone battery which also runs my light &#8211; check it out on the bike page.<\/p>\n<p>To test out the shoes I went for a late night cycle to Shipham and back via Charterhouse. It was a beautiful warm night with a full moon making lights hardly necessary. A Tiger spot works a treat on the road, although you occasionally get a flash for being too bright&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here was the route I took today, 30 odd miles in a couple of hours:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_trip.php?trip_id=676499\">Shipham and back<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"units=english&amp;mode=0&amp;key=ABQIAAAAggE6oX7o-2CFkLBRN20X9BTCaWgBOrVzmDbJc0e41WeTNzCWNBSYkdZ8D6iOk2yqQd-kgDCXfoqiUQ&amp;tripId=676499&amp;startLat=51.22393927&amp;startLon=-2.53276472&amp;mapType=Hybrid&amp;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/swf\/widget.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"units=english&amp;mode=0&amp;key=ABQIAAAAggE6oX7o-2CFkLBRN20X9BTCaWgBOrVzmDbJc0e41WeTNzCWNBSYkdZ8D6iOk2yqQd-kgDCXfoqiUQ&amp;tripId=676499&amp;startLat=51.22393927&amp;startLon=-2.53276472&amp;mapType=Hybrid&amp;\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/swf\/widget.swf\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"units=english&amp;mode=0&amp;key=ABQIAAAAggE6oX7o-2CFkLBRN20X9BTCaWgBOrVzmDbJc0e41WeTNzCWNBSYkdZ8D6iOk2yqQd-kgDCXfoqiUQ&amp;tripId=676499&amp;startLat=51.22393927&amp;startLon=-2.53276472&amp;mapType=Hybrid&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The shoes turned out to be pretty good although the left foot got a little numb and there was a wierd slipping at the top of the right stroke. Plenty more things to tweak then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Northwave vertigo pro shoes arrived today, courtesy of the next door neighbour who signed for them yesterday when I was at work. They seem a pretty good fit, so the Look pedals have gone on the bike finally (why can you never find the right allen key when you need it?). I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,4,3],"tags":[32,31,33,30,17,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reubenwilcock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}