Help me choose Pedals & Shoes

Right, cheers for the advice. I used to ride with SPD's last summer but then moved to fixed and back to flats. Now been with cages a while. I'll try and make it to condor asap so they can fit me up properly and I've got time to practice back with clipless. If not I'll just do the dynamo in cages.

Had a 3 hour ride getting lost around northwest london last night, finally checked out Highgate Hill. Some good climing there.

the only place for your cleats to be is at the height of the ball of the foot, wear your shoes,
then with your finger find the part that sticks out the most on the inner side of the foot,
make a mark with a pen,
then turn the shoe around and just draw an immaginary line going straight from that mark you made directly onto the cleat, here you go.

p.s. DON'T GO TO CONDOR FOR SHOES! Cyclefit's the place...believe me.

I've got some old cheap northwave shoes so I thought about going for MA3K suggestion of the Kameleon, or maybe the Sidi bullet. Mind you I'm tempted to get the from wiggle as I've got a £10 voucher. But I need to check the sizes really.

go one size above for sidis, i'm 43 1/2 and wear sidi 45, with cyclefit inner soles. Sidi bullet were my choice as reccomened by the kiwy guy in there ( velodrome record holder i think). If you're not sure about the size just go into a shop and try them on then get them online if you fancy. If you don't have wide feet it shouldn't be a problem to fit in any make of shoe you want.

Cheers. I'll head there after work tomorrow.

give 'em a call, they asked me to book an appointement when i went , so you get plenty of attention.

they have atacs in decathlon

they sold me xl powergrips at brixton! massive and useless i just asked for the normal ones, i hope they take em back, i opened the packet though

Ted's got a couple going spare

photoben Ted's got a couple going spare

what power grips? well if they wont take em back and if i cant cut em down i may make friends with ted

Yup powergrips. Just realised I never replied to your question about them earlier in the thread. Ooops. He lives with Andy from fixedgearlondon.

Stef the only place for your cleats to be is at the height of the ball of the foot, wear your shoes,
then with your finger find the part that sticks out the most on the inner side of the foot,
make a mark with a pen,
then turn the shoe around and just draw an immaginary line going straight from that mark you made directly onto the cleat, here you go.

I just tried that - but my cleats won't go that far forward... I have long thin-ish feet.
Hmmm...

i just emailed brixton cyles to see if i can cut them down? anyone know?

hah there are two sets of holes in my shoes and i forgot to mention that the line marks the edge of the cleat not the end or the middle but the top of it. That's the part that is closer to the tows

velocity boy [quote]hippy Nah, but I'm thinking seriously about shelling out for a cyclefit fitting before buying my new road bike.

Let me see what I can do next week when I go in there. I'm going to ask them to give forum members 10% off everything. They might go for it.[/quote]

Much obliged! Are you in the country for a while? When do you reckon I could collect that cog? Pick a time near drinking time so I can 'pay' you for it :)

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Stef the only place for your cleats to be is at the height of the ball of the foot, wear your shoes,
then with your finger find the part that sticks out the most on the inner side of the foot,
make a mark with a pen,
then turn the shoe around and just draw an immaginary line going straight from that mark you made directly onto the cleat, here you go.

That's not 100% true. Depending on pedaling style some people prefer the cleat located a few mm to the fore or aft of the ball-of-toe centre line.
Also, that doesn't take into account sideways angle. Stand still and look at your feet - it's usually sensible to angle the cleats to match the natural angle of your feet, ie. if you are pigeon-toed, angle your cleats out so that your shoes point slightly in, if your feet are splayed then do opposite. Basically, you don't want to be doing DD if you've not done a reasonable amount of kilometres in your shoes and corrently positioned. You will find your knees, tendons, etc in a great deal of pain if you've not set them up right.. and the cool part is.. the pain wont start until you've done 100k... ie. it's the middle of the night and you're only half way there. You've been warned!

"Thanks Mum!"

Erk! This close to the dynamo do you reckon I should just stay with cages and go clipless at a later date?

jv i just emailed brixton cyles to see if i can cut them down? anyone know?

offered to exchange, even refund!

top guys at brixton cycles

oh and u can cut them down to fit by the way...

photoben Erk! This close to the dynamo do you reckon I should just stay with cages and go clipless at a later date?

it's not hard to set them up right, it doesn't take long because you'll feel it if something's out. you'll probably have to adjust your cleats a couple of times.

photoben Erk! This close to the dynamo do you reckon I should just stay with cages and go clipless at a later date?

It's a long way to go if you're not comfy. I don't like to make changes like this before long rides.
If it makes you feel any better I'm going to be riding the Soma which I've basically ridden twice since buying it! :D
But! I will be setting it up as close to the road bike as I can get it to reduce the likelyhood of fscking my knees.
If you take an allen key so as to be able to adjust the fore/aft and rotation of the cleats you should be okay.
I'm conflicted because there's no way I'd do it with clips and straps and yet making a change to clipless could be equally troublesome.
Go clipless asap and get them as close to perfect as you can. Take an allen key and adjust if you feel necessary ASAP.

RPM [quote]photoben Erk! This close to the dynamo do you reckon I should just stay with cages and go clipless at a later date?

it's not hard to set them up right, it doesn't take long because you'll feel it if something's out. you'll probably have to adjust your cleats a couple of times.[/quote]

You can get them close, but if one is pointing slightly too far inwards, for example, you'll end up having to hobble around for the next week with something like ITB (illiotibialband - outside of knee tendon thingie) problems (from experience).

Right cheers for the advice. Looks like my desicon has been made for me, as one of my freelance clients still hasn't paid up so i can't afford to buy thm yet anyway. Guess cages for the ride and just take it easy.

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