sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Hmmmm. A bit miffed 🙁
*Stuck my SPD-SL cleats on the Mavic shoes I was kindly given - this afternoon (My first ever clipless pedals) - to get a feel for what’s going on. Messed around with cleat tension / how the foot is released etc.
And then noticed how darned close my shoe is to the crank arm. [Approx 6mm max I reckon]. At this point shoes are as new / have done very little work / so are not stretched at all. And when pictured there’s no foot or weight in them of course. So that small gap is only going to decrease. I’ll be at risk of rubbing with every revolution……
It’s hardly surprising in retrospect of course. I didn’t pick out when purchasing - how darned short the spindle is on these Shimano 105 pedals.
Just had a half-hour look on the net. And I can’t find too many pedals with clearly longer spindles. Apart from some of the Chinese Brands (Which doesn’t hugely worry me - as I’m sure I have the same [Bearings not bushes] brand on my Carrera and they’ve done 2000+ miles…and run as good as new).
Or of course I could whack a pair of 16mm extenders in line:
Anyone got any thoughts / experiences on this at all ?
*Stuck my SPD-SL cleats on the Mavic shoes I was kindly given - this afternoon (My first ever clipless pedals) - to get a feel for what’s going on. Messed around with cleat tension / how the foot is released etc.
And then noticed how darned close my shoe is to the crank arm. [Approx 6mm max I reckon]. At this point shoes are as new / have done very little work / so are not stretched at all. And when pictured there’s no foot or weight in them of course. So that small gap is only going to decrease. I’ll be at risk of rubbing with every revolution……
It’s hardly surprising in retrospect of course. I didn’t pick out when purchasing - how darned short the spindle is on these Shimano 105 pedals.
Just had a half-hour look on the net. And I can’t find too many pedals with clearly longer spindles. Apart from some of the Chinese Brands (Which doesn’t hugely worry me - as I’m sure I have the same [Bearings not bushes] brand on my Carrera and they’ve done 2000+ miles…and run as good as new).
Or of course I could whack a pair of 16mm extenders in line:
Anyone got any thoughts / experiences on this at all ?
