Re: Heel and Toe - It's the Shoes

[Jeremy R King <kingjer@eng.auburn.edu>]

Should be pretty easy for you eliot, what with that real big pedal on the 
left!  (Sorry, couldn't pass it up.)

Jeremy
'86 VW Quantum GL5
Auburn University, Alabama, USA
Hometown - Reidville, South Carolina, USA

On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Eliot Lim wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Greg Koehler wrote:
> 
> >Audis are designed for 
> > slim Italian-style shoes.
> 
> no.  audis were designed to be driven on the street with little or no
> rev matching shifts.  otherwise the pedals would not be the way they
> are.  if you look at italian cars or real racing cars, the pedals are
> shaped and arranged in a manner much more suited for heel & toe
> shifting.
> 
> rather than changing your shoes you should be thinking about having
> racing style pedals fitted.  i don't know if the various racing rules
> permit it, but i think that it would be quite dumb if they did not.
> 
> whose ego is going to get bruised this time?  :)
> 
> 
> eliot
>