[Closed] Road pedals?

Much bigger contact area and stiffer soled shoes means better power transfer, and no hot-spots on your feet.

I've just realised that, so am also looking to see what's around...

I didn't believe it until I got some.

Still find them awkward to clip into but no more sore/numb feet.

We had a big thread on this last week that you probably missed.

Yes get road pedals and road shoes.

You can get Look keo copies made by eustkatar or someone like that for @25

Lots like Shimano but Im a look fan.

If you'll pardon me waving my willy for a moment, I've done plenty of ~130 mile rides with Atacs and Specialized Sonomas without getting "hot spots" and whatnots - have you all got tender little ladies' feet or something?

That aside, your fashion conscious self is correct, a decent road bike with MTB pedals is as right as a decent MTB with a shopping basket - and that's as good a reason as any to get proper pedals.

There are no hot spots when you have carbon soles it'sjust not possible with a well designed shoe. Plus everybody forgets that tour de France's have been won on single sided spds with carbon soled shoes

I use PD A600s on the road bike. Not really bothered about looks, but the Spesh Expert Carbons are therefore ideal on all three bikes.

It's the WEIGHT!

My Shimano mountain bike shoes with SPD cleats and pedals are more than double the weight of my Shimano road shoes with Look Keo cleats and pedals.

I want my road bike to be as light as possible so why cart all that extra weight around with me?

Plus the Keo setup with a stiff-soled road shoe gives a very nice flat firm platform for when you're out of the saddle.

It's the WEIGHT!

My Shimano mountain bike shoes with SPD cleats and pedals are more than double the weight of my Shimano road shoes with Look Keo cleats and pedals.

I want my road bike to be as light as possible so why cart all that extra weight around with me?

Plus the Keo setup with a stiff-soled road shoe gives a very nice flat firm platform for when you're out of the saddle.

I have just changed over from m520's to 105 pedals. The 105's weigh 80g less but are so much harder to get into at speed and at junctions. Im going to try the new R087 shoes with the m520's.

Careful though as you can trash the plastic cleat thingys walking round on them. So start on Mtn bike stuff then when your happy move over.

Got some hotspots using candys and specialized shoes until they settled down. Also it's nice to wear non muddy shoes for once

Looking out for some road shoes and pedals now

where was that whats on your list thread gone

I use both. There is a slight improvement with road pedals and shoes over mtb. But in my case this is probably because my road shoes and pedals are a lot more expensive than my mtb shoes and pedals (since they get more heavy abusive use).

I've done centuries and plenty of 75mile+ rides in mtb shoes without issue. Good mtb race shoes with a stiff sole will be fine.

My mtb shoes are dhb ones. If you look at the road ones they are virtually identical except the road ones have less grip on the bottom and different holes for cleats.

I'd start with mtb if you already have them and see how you get one.

Just to counter the 'no hot spots' comments, I've often suffered with hot spots in my road shoes over the years and that's been with Carnac, Northwave, Gaerne, and a couple of other brands I can't remember atm.

The key thing here is a good fitting shoe and as someone with v broad feet, this isn't always easy to resolve with cycling shoes.

Never had an issue with MTB shoes (Shimano, Nike and Spesh) on long (6 hour + rides) but I but that down to the constant stop start of MTBing.

I've been using Look pedals since the late 80's and the larger cleat does mean a broader contact area. The latest composite Keo pedals are a hell of a lot lighter than the previous generation and don't squeak either.