Each of these shoes was ridden with OneUp flat pedals (my personal favorite) on a variety of hardtails, rigid 29+ bikes, and my full-suspension Ibis Ripley. Find a mini-review of each shoe below followed by ratings, weights, and other details, then read on for a few of my favorite picks in different categories. Note that all of these are flat pedal mountain bike shoes with a protective or molded toe cap, a lace-up design, and stiff-ish heel cups.
Flat 7 - Lost In Blue.rar
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Alema Rar was taken to Eclipse Station, the secret Jedi base in the Deep Core, in a state of nervous collapse. At the station, she healed in a bacta tank, unaware that as an act of reprisal the Nebula Chaser had been destroyed, with ten thousand refugees lost. Even without this knowledge, Rar was raging inside with grief and anger. While the Twi'lek recovered the threat of the voxyn grew greater. Several Jedi fell to the creatures, which were deposited on worlds and relay junctions across the invasion corridor to seek out hidden Force-wielders. Eventually, Jedi healer Cilghal discovered that the voxyn were being cloned from a single female, which was subsequently referred to as the voxyn queen. A mission to Froz was organized to retrieve more of the creatures for study and Anakin Solo and a squadron of fellow Jedi managed to return with several dead voxyn. By the time Alema Rar was out of the bacta tank, and informed of the destruction of the Nebula Chaser, it had been discerned that the voxyn queen was located on or nearby the planet Myrkr, which was itself deep within Yuuzhan Vong territory.[1]
Immediately on arrival in the Myrkr system, Solo discovered that there were other Jedi present aboard the worldship Baanu Rass orbiting the planet. Rar counseled against rescuing the trapped Force-sensitives, instead arguing that the worldship housing the voxyn project should be destroyed as planned with a high-power baradium missile. It soon became a moot point as Yuuzhan Vong forces sprung a trap and the missile was instead used to obliterate a matalok cruiser leading the hostile forces. Rar and the others loaded into pods and landed on the worldship's surface. In space, 2-1S, one of the YVH droids, was lost, and Ulaha Kore remained to pilot the Exquisite Death as a decoy, playing a last song by means of a rudimentary instrument to Rar and the other Jedi before she died. On the worldship's surface, the team trekked across through various traps, which Rar's experience on New Plympto enabled them to avoid. As Yuuzhan Vong warriors began searching the area, the team disguised themselves as warriors with holoshrouds, with Rar in the lead as a practiced insertion agent.[1]
Lomi Plo offered to lead the team through the voxyn training warren and the Jedi began to fracture over the best course of action. Zekk detested the idea of accepting help from dark side adherents, whereas Rar saw Plo and Welk as the best chance for survival. When two coralskipper starfighters made a run on the strike team's location, YVH 2-4S was lost, and Rar gave her breath mask to Plo in a brief gas attack deployed by one of the Yuuzhan Vong pilots. Unprotected from the gas, and pursued through a lake by a voxyn, Rar barely managed to escape the creature before being rendered unconscious by the gas. She and a similarly comatose Welk were taken to safety by Veila and Tekli while the team set up an ambush for the pursuing Yuuzhan Vong warrior contingent. The unconscious Twi'lek went hidden and unscathed as the warriors were successfully routed and ambushed.[1]
Rar boarded the Ksstarr along with the others and they made their escape, attempting to effect the extraction of Jacen Solo, who had managed to defeat the voxyn queen and end the threat. Unfortunately for the strike team survivors, a Yuuzhan Vong fleet entered the system, forcing them to abandon Jacen Solo and retreat.[1] The Yuuzhan Vong warships pursued the frigate doggedly, attempting to capture Jaina Solo to sacrifice alongside her brother. This agenda kept the Yuuzhan Vong vessels from being able to harm the Ksstarr significantly, and Solo soon took the frigate into hyperspace to Coruscant, the New Republic capital.[17] Of the strike team's seventeen original Jedi, nine left the system aboard the Ksstarr. During the battle in the cloning grashal, Rar had felt, as had the others, the sensation of Raynar Thul's departure from their view of the Force. The scion of the House of Thul was thought lost, killed aboard the Tachyon Flier, and became one more casualty of the costly, but ultimately successful, Mission to Myrkr.[1]
By the final year of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Rar was fighting in Twin Suns Squadron itself, under the command of Jaina Solo. The New Republic, since reorganized into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, had made some progress against the Yuuzhan Vong and, in a campaign to retake key worlds and systems around Coruscant, was slowly drawing the net around the lost galactic capital. Rar flew with Twin Suns Squadron at the battle of the Duro system, once again under the command of General Wedge Antilles. In part of a carefully prepared plan to retake Fondor, Antilles took his forces on a extended advance through the Duro system. A heavy day's fighting ensued, and more and more Yuuzhan Vong forces arrived to reinforce their beleaguered holdings in the Duro system. When the Yuuzhan Vong garrison at Fondor had departed for Duro, Antilles trapped the Yuuzhan Vong arrivals with interdiction generators, leaving Fondor undefended and ripe for the taking by General Garm Bel Iblis.[7]
As the Galactic Alliance prisoners were being transported to safety, however, Yuuzhan Vong reinforcements struck. Flying new craft, the arrivals took the Galactic Alliance starfighter squadrons by surprise. Rar joined Solo in covering the retreat of the Millennium Falcon, which successfully escaped, but in total Twin Suns Squadron lost five of its pilots. The ravaged squadron protected the surviving transports as they retreated. Traveling from the Tantara system to Kashyyyk and thence to Dac itself, Rar's arrival, along with that of the rest of the squadron, went largely unnoticed by the public. The Galactic Alliance military was readying itself for the campaign to retake Coruscant from the Yuuzhan Vong, but the depleted Jedi Order had its own agenda. Luke Skywalker, his wife, Corran Horn, Tahiri Veila, and several others had been incommunicado on a hunt for the living world Zonama Sekot, which was thought to hold the solution to the mystery of the Yuuzhan Vong, due to the fact that it had successfully defended itself against a prior Yuuzhan Vong invasion fifty years previously.[22]
Unbeknownst to Alema Rar or the other Myrkr team survivors, another member of the strike force, the long lost Raynar Thul, had survived his mid-mission abduction by Lomi Plo and Welk. From the distant Unknown Regions, Thul exerted his presence in the Force, summoning the other strike team survivors to him. At first, the call was vague and unclear and the Jedi informed Luke Skywalker and the other Jedi Masters of the mystery. As the weeks went by, it became more compelling, until Rar abandoned her investigation into the activities of the True Victory Party and met with Lowbacca, Zekk, Jaina Solo and Tesar. Together the five Jedi traveled to an asteroid colony in the Unknown Regions, giving no explanation for their sudden departure. There, they were received by the Lizil, a nest of insectoid creatures belonging to the Killik species, a race thought rendered extinct millennia before. The Jedi were then met by a group of guards from the Unu nest, the prime Killik nest, of which Raynar Thul was the overall leader. A day after their arrival at the asteroid colony, the Jedi group left.[8]
Rar's opponents proved themselves more than capable of withstanding the masses of warriors and despite the Twi'lek's best efforts Luke Skywalker was soon coming after her. The former Jedi Knight retreated up a tunnel but was eventually forced to turn and face the Jedi Master. Skywalker offered clemency, giving Rar the opportunity to return to the Jedi. In response, the Twi'lek attacked the Jedi Master furiously. Outmatched, she was easily held at bay while Skywalker urged her to reconsider her actions and to think of her long dead sister and how Numa would perceive Rar's current actions. This approach incensed Rar further, though she was unable to break through Skywalker's guard. The Jedi Master then batted the Twi'lek's blade aside, dragged Rar toward him with the Force, and cleaved down into her left shoulder with his own weapon. Instantly, Rar lost the use of her sword arm. Skywalker appropriated her lightsaber and headed back to aid his wife, while Rar retreated to safety.[8]
In truth, Lomi Plo was a Sith Master, a fact of which Rar never became aware during her training under the Human woman.[13] Plo taught the fallen Twi'lek Jedi several advanced Force techniques to enable her to become a capable agent. Rar soon learnt to develop a slippery presence in the Force, allowing her to conceal herself and remove herself from the memories of those whom she encountered.[3][5] She replaced the lightsaber she had lost to Luke Skywalker on Kr with a weapon with a dark blue blade. Her left shoulder, mangled by Skywalker's blade, gave the Twi'lek a lopsided posture, and her left arm became withered and useless. Nevertheless, Rar was resolute in her opposition to her former friends and comrades in the Jedi Order. She served only the Gorog and Lomi Plo.[5]
Determined that Lobi should not inform the Jedi Order of the alliance between Solo and Lumiya, as Rar felt such a development would ruin the Balance by alerting Organa Solo to her son's corruption too soon, the Twi'lek leapt at Lobi with her lightsaber. Immediately, Lobi was able to repel Rar's surprise attack, injure the Twi'lek, and retreat. The former Night Herald used the distance to remove the Jedi Master's headset with the Force, preventing Lobi from recording the duel. Rar quickly recruited Lumiya to her cause and together they pursued Lobi. The fierce fight which followed saw Rar and Lumiya initially overpowered; Lumiya lost an arm and Rar was dragged into the path of the Sith Lady's signature lightwhip by Lobi's command of the Force. Lobi continued to prevail until she hesitated; Rar seized the opportunity and forced the Chev back, whereupon Lumiya severed the Jedi Master's legs. With what she saw as an act of mercy, Rar then decapitated the helpless Chev.[3] 2ff7e9595c
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