Timeline for Recommendations on how to buy clipless bike shoes
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| Apr 2, 2021 at 11:53 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @Cerulean plastic 3 bolt cleats wear out from the bottom because of walking around on them. When they get thin, the corners snap off and then your foot isn't retained in the pedal very well. Metal 2 bolt clears tend to last for many years. Both kinds of cleats can be replaced by unbolting the old ones and bolting on new ones in the same place - its quite easy. For you I'd probably recommend 2 bolt MTB style cleats - the conveniences outweigh the downsides for anyone who's not racing. | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 11:41 | comment | added | Weiwen Ng | I'm not sure I agree that walkable shoes tend to transfer less power than equivalently-priced road shoes. First, you can get MTB shoes with very stiff soles if you want - many of the major brands make parallel versions with the same sole stiffness. Second, leaving aside running shoes, I'm not sure that sole stiffness makes an enormous difference in power transfer. As long as the sole is stiff enough, you may be fine. Third, it may be placebo, but I've heard some people say that extremely stiff soles can be uncomfortable. | |
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| Apr 2, 2021 at 9:09 | comment | added | Cerulean | Thanks. I suppose I'd want road cleats, since I'm just riding on asphalt at the moment and interested in transfer of power. So that would be 3 bolts? Are they easier or harder to clip and unclip than 2 bolt shoes? You say the 3 bolts wear out between 3 and 12 months. Is this a thing you'd notice, so you can replace them, or suddenly while riding some part breaks or unclips? When the clear is worn out, can you replace that part, or the whole shoe had to be replaced? | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 7:14 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @MaplePanda well I do, mostly because I don't want to own two separate pairs of shoes. There's no technical reason stopping someone from using one on the other, though as you rightly observe, road cleats are better for road, and MTB cleats are better off-road. That said, I've even ridden on the road while wearing gumboots (it was raining really hard :) | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 6:37 | comment | added | MaplePanda | I wouldn’t recommend riding road pedals for actual MTB usage. Riding on the road, sure, but not trails. For one, the cleats would wear out real quick, but the lack of mud clearance, awkward droopy single-sided clipping in, and possibly weaker construction are also all issues. | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 5:43 | history | answered | Criggie♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |