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To: libstripper

He is wearing toe clips riding a bike surrounded by Secret Service. When the group seems to turn right, he keeps going straight towards a crowd of people. It looks like he puts his left foot on the ground and then can’t get his tight foot out of the right toe clip and goes down. It was not really a crash. It was a slow fall with one foot already on the ground. He could have really hurt himself.

Why would a man of almost 80 years old be using toe clips? I thought they were for a professional bike racers.


14 posted on 06/18/2022 8:47:17 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Freee-dame

Another stumble.......this is embarrassing..........the world has to be laughing their ass off.


20 posted on 06/18/2022 8:51:18 AM PDT by Oak007
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To: Freee-dame

Why would a man of almost 80 years old be using toe clips? I thought they were for a professional bike racers.

They look like the old-style toe clips, referred to as “rat traps”. They’ve been obsolete for at least 20 years, replaced by the so called “clipless” pedals where you twist your foot to unlock from the pedal clip.


88 posted on 06/18/2022 9:33:41 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Freee-dame

toe clips?? lol he was showing off

he cant let his adoring public think

he is not a professional racer.

I can hear it now, “ I was a professional

racer and I won the Tour de France. They

gave me a trophy but I had to give it

back to them - im far too humble

to accept one so I told them give it

to the guy who came in 2nd place


97 posted on 06/18/2022 9:45:12 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns
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To: Freee-dame

Not even. They’re more for losers.

A pro cyclist will click in their pedals with special shoes. They take even more coordination to get out of, but toe clips will trap your feet in if you don’t know how to slip out of them in time.


111 posted on 06/18/2022 10:09:08 AM PDT by bryan999
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To: Freee-dame

“He could have really hurt himself.”

He folded over like a card table. I’m thinking he busted his elbow, and that might be his writing arm.

How soon before somebody loops that clip, and how viral will it go online?


152 posted on 06/18/2022 4:28:01 PM PDT by tsomer
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