I’m fully ATAC’d up, but I’d like the pedals on my ‘local’ bike to be usable with ordinary shoes for nipping up to shops etc.

Are the Z controls or the Z Freerides the way to go ?

Thanks

I wouldn’t bother, I have both and normal shoes still slide off the binder bars.

Nipping to the shops will be fine.

Yeah, nipping to the shops should be fine with Z-Controls, but absolutely nothing more.

Aye, the clip in mechanism is proud of the body of the pedal on the Z-series; won’t really work with flat-soled shoes in the way platform Shimano SPD pedals do.

Depends how far away your shops are, really…

Thanks, all.

I have some on my SS and it is fine for about a mile or two[ better with a firm sole tbh]
I use it with whatever shoes I am wearing to do the school run or to nip to the shops etc.
I would not want to do big mileage like this though but they perform better than a normal time pedal as a flat.

I have some for sale – you can borrow them if you wish to see if they are suitable for purpose and return if you dont want them as they are expensive new- my e-amil is in profile as your is not.

thanks for the offer, but the ride to shops etc is 3 or 4 miles each way. I was hoping for something like the shimanos, but clearly this isn’t it. Clattering around the supermarket will continue…

If it’s 3 to 4 miles I’ll take back my previous comment!

How do you plan to ride the 3-4 miles? Is it flat, and bimbly or full of teh gnarrrrr?

If the former, you’ll be fine. If the latter, you need a full face and body armour at least.

I would still not fully rule them out depending on terrain not sure what the furthest is I have done in them -you can still borrow if you want to try
Only other suggestion is to get some cleats and bolt them to a flat sheet of thickish steel and use these as some form of flat platform insert?
Wont be pretty but should work well …tempted to knock up a set for you tbh but I am busy for the net few weeks and dont have any spare cleats

Junky, what about some Winwood inserts?

way to pretty and purpose built and just no where near agricultural 😉 …tart
yes what flash said – did not know they did them tbh