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This may sound silly......I have mountain bike shoes that I use on my road bike. I max out at about 30-40 miles and sometimes have to do a bit of walking....so they work for me.
I am curious if there is an adapter that can attach to give me the road bike cleat. I often have opportunities to try new bikes or the pelaton at the gym, but they always seem to have the road cleat. Would like a cheap solution if it exists.
Thanks for any advice.
JP
SPD pedals are fine on a road bike. In fact more of the road cyclists I know ride "MTB" or "touring" pedals than "road" pedals. These are a mixture of long distance cyclists, cycle tourists, and people who like to stop at cafés without slipping all over the place.
The bikes in my gym actually have SPD cleats on one side, and toe clips (actually Look-compatible cleats with toe-clip adaptors fitted and hardly ever removed) on the other (maybe yours also have toe clips, which are fine indoors), but for the rare occasions when I go to the velodrome I have 3-bolt shoes. As they're also 2-bolt compatible I've tried them on the road, and they're not good for my style of starting off (accelerating fairly hard before worrying about clipping in, especially when commuting). Pushing a bike up a hill in them would be very difficult indeed.
Pedals are cheaper than shoes, so changing the pedals isn't too expensive.
Mountainbike shoes have the cleat recessed in the sole. Road bike cleats won’t fit in there, even if you had an adapter from 2 hole MTB cleats to 3 hole road bike cleats. You’d need an adapter which sits outside of the recess which would add a lot of stack height.
There are road bike shoes which have holes for both types of cleats. However, the lack of soles means you don’t really gain anything by using such a shoe with MTB cleats.
