Fasts

Performance is a bit behind the times on fashionable foot retention though, and I'm surprised they didn't spec any of the new bikes with some bootleg Hold Fasts.

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If you're unfamiliar with Hold Fasts, they work exactly like a pair of velcro bedroom slippers--the footwear of choice for the Thorazine-addled.

Archive 2010-01-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010

If you're unfamiliar with Hold Fasts, they work exactly like a pair of velcro bedroom slippers--the footwear of choice for the Thorazine-addled.

Feeling Freaky: Who Needs Insight? BikeSnobNYC 2010

They jammed their surnames together into a single hyphenated oddity and got monogrammed towels that pronounced them to be the Jong-Fasts.

Growing Up With Ma Jong Molly Jong-Fast 2010

Performance is a bit behind the times on fashionable foot retention though, and I'm surprised they didn't spec any of the new bikes with some bootleg Hold Fasts.

Feeling Freaky: Who Needs Insight? BikeSnobNYC 2010

What's the difference between the Hold Fasts and Powergrips?

The Irrelevancy of Time: Bicycle Products Don't Spoil BikeSnobNYC 2009

What do you think of Slim Fasts low carb drinks 6 carbs total.

More thoughts on why low-carb the second time around | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Edith Simon (New York: Macmillan, 1939), a work by a disillusioned ex-communist who sees in Spartacuss revolt the excesses of revolution; and Howard Fasts famous 1951 Spartacus, republished in 1996 by North Castle Books (Armonk, N.Y.) with a brief introductory essay by Fast about his experiences as an American communist in the McCarthy era.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Nice! the new Hold Fasts are MUCH better than that version...

The Irrelevancy of Time: Bicycle Products Don't Spoil BikeSnobNYC 2009

Unless you change the size rarely, it looks like the Hold Fasts will need to be replaced every year or three when the velcro weakens.

The Irrelevancy of Time: Bicycle Products Don't Spoil BikeSnobNYC 2009