Barbelier
Senior Member
Have been suffering for a while from an ache along the right edge of my right foot after starting to ride clipless with Shimano M324 pedals and Shimano MTB shoes.
Read lots of posts on this type of problem and tried through trial and error all of the following:
- moving cleats back & forward
- angling cleats
- wearing shoes tight & loose
- inserted specilaized footbeds
- tried various wedge shims
Whilst there has been some improvement, it's still there. With a planned JOGLE in September I need to sort it out.
Last night so fed up with it I rode with the right foot unclipped.
I have done this before to check my natural positioning. However, previously I was concentrating on the angle of my foot (I do angle it slightly outwards). Last night I suddenly realised that the right was sitting anywhere between 40mm and 60mm from the crank arm. This compared to the left which was clipped at about 20mm from the crank arm. In fact the right foot came off the end of the pedal a few times when climbing! I have quite wide feet.
By the end of the ride (about 35 miles) no ache down the right side anymore!
So is the solution as simple as fitting a pedal extension to the right and is this the correct solution?
I assume there is not problem just having a pedal extension on the one side (don't want to mess with the left because its perfect)?
Which pedal extension would you recommend?
As an aside it felt really strange peddling unclipped. Stopping at junctions raising the right foot to lift the pedal only to find nothing happens!
Read lots of posts on this type of problem and tried through trial and error all of the following:
- moving cleats back & forward
- angling cleats
- wearing shoes tight & loose
- inserted specilaized footbeds
- tried various wedge shims
Whilst there has been some improvement, it's still there. With a planned JOGLE in September I need to sort it out.
Last night so fed up with it I rode with the right foot unclipped.
I have done this before to check my natural positioning. However, previously I was concentrating on the angle of my foot (I do angle it slightly outwards). Last night I suddenly realised that the right was sitting anywhere between 40mm and 60mm from the crank arm. This compared to the left which was clipped at about 20mm from the crank arm. In fact the right foot came off the end of the pedal a few times when climbing! I have quite wide feet.
By the end of the ride (about 35 miles) no ache down the right side anymore!
So is the solution as simple as fitting a pedal extension to the right and is this the correct solution?
I assume there is not problem just having a pedal extension on the one side (don't want to mess with the left because its perfect)?
Which pedal extension would you recommend?
As an aside it felt really strange peddling unclipped. Stopping at junctions raising the right foot to lift the pedal only to find nothing happens!