Converting Road to MTB shoes...

I have some sidi roads, but I want to make them capable of holding the Time cleat. They do at the minute but obviously you cant walk in them.

What is the best way to go about this?

Cheers

cut up an old tyre (car tyre) and glue or bolt it on

I assume that you were able to fix the cleat.
That means that your soles have a "Lancia grill" style double slot, correct ?

You have to glue some kind of tread on the soles.
As a matter of fact, Shimano used to sell these to shoe factories to be 100% compatible. But these were never available to end-consumers.

The thickness of the tread is critical.

Too thin: shoes / feet instable on the pedals (wobbling)
Too thick: hard or even impossible to (dis)engage

In the early days of "clipless MTB racing", several racers used to take road shoes (carbon soles) and glued MTB outer soles on them. This mad a very stiff MTB racing shoe. Most SPD/ATAC compatible MTB shoes were too soft/flexy for racing.
Nowadays, there is a good choice of stiff offroad shoes.

I assume that you were able to fix the cleat.
That means that your soles have a "Lancia grill" style double slot, correct ?

You have to glue some kind of tread on the soles.
As a matter of fact, Shimano used to sell these to shoe factories to be 100% compatible. But these were never available to end-consumers.

The thickness of the tread is critical.

Too thin: shoes / feet instable on the pedals (wobbling)
Too thick: hard or even impossible to (dis)engage

In the early days of "clipless MTB racing", several racers used to take road shoes (carbon soles) and glued MTB outer soles on them. This mad a very stiff MTB racing shoe. Most SPD/ATAC compatible MTB shoes were too soft/flexy for racing.
Nowadays, there is a good choice of stiff offroad shoes.

Yeah can fix the cleat, I'll look into glueing something to the bottom and see how I get on. cheers

check crank brothers (eggbeater) website. I think they sold a rubber insert that went around the cleat to allow you to run two-bolt cleat on road shoes

Crank Brothers do a cleat patch that allows you to walk on them, works well!

can you not still get the pontoons that fit with two bolt cleats?

Yeah, for Shimano road-SPD, but for Time ???

should fit?

time mtb and spd still have the same 2 bolt fitting

Sweet lads, good work!

Just buy some new shoes, cheapskate/povvo...

^haha

http://www.sidicafe.co.uk/sidi-spares/spd-adapter-for-3-hole-shoes

these let you run a 2 hole cleat, much better than the crank bro's system
but still not the greatest thing as you lose alot of efficiency with the plate.

http://www.sidicafe.co.uk/sidi-spares/spd-adapter-for-3-hole-shoes

these let you run a 2 hole cleat, much better than the crank bro's system
but still not the greatest thing as you lose alot of efficiency with the plate.

Done cheers pal.

should fit?

time mtb and spd still have the same 2 bolt fitting

These only fit road-spd cleats, because there sould be a L to R slot to accept the metal strip.
Offroad MTB and Time cleats don't have that.
Or you must have a milling machine...

Besides that, I wouldn't call that "walkable".
Not in the way you may need it for offroad use.

could you glue these on?

http://www.sidicafe.co.uk/sidi-spares/mtb-srs-replacement-sole

could you glue these on?

http://www.sidicafe.co.uk/sidi-spares/mtb-srs-replacement-sole

If the cleat is bolted nicely to the sole. Then this will be the best option IMHO. Even using those Crank bros plates that protect your shoe soles, drives me mad. If you use a two part epoxy glue they'll be on there for life.

These only fit road-spd cleats, because there sould be a L to R slot to accept the metal strip.
Offroad MTB and Time cleats don't have that.
Or you must have a milling machine...

Besides that, I wouldn't call that "walkable".
Not in the way you may need it for offroad use.

OK, you know best.

could you glue these on?

http://www.sidicafe.co.uk/sidi-spares/mtb-srs-replacement-sole

those are made of cheese.
they last about 2 weeks.

those are made of cheese.
they last about 2 weeks.

Parmesan or mozzarella?

those are made of cheese.
they last about 2 weeks.

those colour ones?
They are the harder wearing ones, the black/red/yellow are softer and wear our quicker but are gripper.
the new carbon red/silver ones could well be made out of cheese. or the fact they are being used on englands rough roads.

nope, the grey ones are softer, supplied with the cheaper sidi's
the black ones are supplied with the dragons and the eagles, they last at least three times as long as the grey ones.

i have had two sets of both.

gey = goats cheese
black = parmasan

Done cheers pal.

They will be with you tomorrow ;)

They will be with you tomorrow ;)

Ha awesome cheers hen.

Did you throw in some Dragons?

http://www.sidicafe.co.uk/sidi-spares/spd-adapter-for-3-hole-shoes

these let you run a 2 hole cleat, much better than the crank bro's system
but still not the greatest thing as you lose alot of efficiency with the plate.

Will these work on any road shoe - i have some old Northwave shoes i want to convert to run on my Time Atacs