Doing a fair bit of road riding as home has little decent off road stuff out the door. Always just used old MTB SPDs on the road bike. Is there much benefit from the road specific ones. Thinking of a set of 105s.
There was a very long, and sometimes argumentative, thread on this only a week or so back.
if your SPDs don't cause you any issue then I'd probably stick with them, at least you get the benefit of 2 sided entry. I've just taken SPDs off my winter bike but only so that I can use the same shoes across all my road / turbo / winter bikes.
Mountain bike spd's every time for me simply for the fact that you can walk in the shoes without wrecking the cleats or falling on your arse.
Here you go. It will save a few electrons.
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/do-road-shoes-make-much-difference
spd-sl ... well look actually, cleat covers to prevent wrecking and
never once fallen over whilst walking to the cafe in them, but as they
say mtb ones are just fine if they don't cause you any issues.
Alot of mtbers seem to have very poor balance/coordination anyway, so it's not surprising they find walking in road shoes difficult. Worth getting MTB spds if you're a typical mtber.
Otherwise, go road and reap the benefit's of improved stiffness/comfort/weight/looks and you won't suffer from the dreaded hotspots on big rides of 50 miles or more.
Ask any proper roadie who does 500k or more a month; they'll tell you to buy road shoes.
I'd stick with MTB SPD's if I were you.
Personally I find they work best for me.
Even wore them at the track.
If you don;t get issues with them now, why change?
Ask any proper roadie who does 500k or more a month; they'll tell you to buy road shoes.
500k a month 😆
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[i]"Otherwise, go road and reap the benefit's of improved stiffness/comfort/weight/looks and you won't suffer from the dreaded hotspots on big rides of 50 miles or more."[/i]
Maybe my feet are some sort of super feet, but I've done rides of about four times that with Atacs and Specialized Sonomas (which aren't exactly the stiffest things around) without these "hotspots". I'd be quite happy using Atacs on any length ride. And, while I'm hardly a racer, if I compare my fastest times over my most frequent 30 mile route with those shoes against my Sidis and SPD-SLs there's only 2 minutes' difference. Oh, and the bike with the Atacs also has dyno lighting running full time and is 4.5lb heavier, which just might be factors.
Balls. Ride what you want. Sure, road pedals and shoes look the part on a road bike and might be a little lighter, but MTB pedals at least let you walk more easily and are more likely to let you in when you need to make a clean getaway at a junction. Fundamentally, though, they all do the job remarkably well.
^^^ to echo the above, i did 300km in July last year in Shimano AM45 SPD shoes, on my road bike, quite a flat route but my average was >30kph
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