Mr Flowers wrote:
> im thinking of buying look style pedals over spd's for a road bike. is this
> wise and if so will any shoes fit?
Yes, and No, respectively.
Looks have a bigger platform and a bigger cleat than SPuDs so
there's a better base for pedalling. But you'll need a shoe with a
3 point fixing to take a Look cleat, which means (a) a smaller
range of shoes to play with, most of which will have (b) "tottering
mode" rather than "walk mode" off the bike. That's not an issue on
the bike, but if you ride out into the country and then wander
round places on foot, or do your Tesco run by bike etc. as some of
us do then Looks would quite possibly be A Mistake (Helen Wafflycat
has Look compatible shoes with recessed cleats, but general opinion
is that they're mutants beamed here from a parallel universe and
nobody else has seen the like).
Pete.
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