It's the wrong shoes Gromit

[pumpadave]

Well after the sole of my aldi shoes snapped I decided to replace them with some better quality ones, I found spiuk uhra MTB shoes. They arrived but when I tried them on they were a bit too snug so sent them back and ordered the next size up........ or so I thought!

I re ordered my shoes in a bit of a hurry in my lunch break the next day and only just noticed today that instead of the MTB ones I ordered the road ones!! Doh!! Luckily they are compatible with the 2 bolt cleats so I'm just going to go with them, they are almost identical!

These are the MTB shoes

And these are the road shoes!!

 

[Bryony]

You are such a plum!!

 

[Peteaud]

Send them back and get the right ones, spd on road shoes is lethal.

 

[cyberknight]

Yup the aldi shoes are pretty poor for sole strength, i went for decathlon rockrider MTB shoes and as @petaud says the sticking out cleats with be not much fun to walk on compared to recessed cleats .

 

[pumpadave]

Send them back and get the right ones, spd on road shoes is lethal.

I will keep them and upgrade to SLs in the near future.

 

[young Ed]

I will keep them and upgrade to SLs in the near future.

are you currently running a MTB or a road bike on the spd's?
Cheers Ed

 

[pumpadave]

are you currently running a MTB or a road bike on the spd's?
Cheers Ed

It's for road bike, don't know if I'm brave enough to try off roading clipless! Lol

 

[young Ed]

It's for road bike, don't know if I'm brave enough to try off roading clipless! Lol

funny you want change to spd-sl as i am looking at changing to spd from spd-sl
and i'm all on road
Cheers Ed

 

[ufkacbln]

Send them back and get the right ones, spd on road shoes is lethal.

+1

You will skate around ... the cleat on MTB Shoes is recessed so you can walk, it is proud of the shoe on the road version, so you will find difficulty walking

 

[Dave 123]

Cool colour!

 

[400bhp]

I will keep them and upgrade to SLs in the near future.

Upgrade?

Sideways.

 

[young Ed]

Upgrade?

Sideways.

agreed
i am looking at changing to spd for road riding but with more rigid soles than a MTB shoe
i am looking at these

recessed cleat for walking, fairly rigid sole

my reason for changing is a do a lot more walking than i would like to in my cycling shoes
Cheers Ed

 

[Bryony]

+1

You will skate around ... the cleat on MTB Shoes is recessed so you can walk, it is proud of the shoe on the road version, so you will find difficulty walking

Will keep me entertained watching him trying to walk around!

 

[young Ed]

+1

You will skate around ... the cleat on MTB Shoes is recessed so you can walk, it is proud of the shoe on the road version, so you will find difficulty walking

will it be any more dangerous or harder to walk then spd-sl?
Cheers Ed

 

[uclown2002]

I wonder how far you guys actually walk!
I have SLs and have no difficulty walking around. Even been known to nip round a supermarket for a few bits on the way home.