SPD-SL

[Glasgow44]

I’ve been riding about on my new BMC carbon road bike and loving it. As with my Giant Defy 2 road bike, I’ve fitted it with SPD-SL pedals. The pedals on my BMC seem to be really stiff and, at first I put this down to them being new. However this morning, I noticed at the back of the pedal there is a “switch” looking thing with 3 settings. The SPD SL pedal on my Giant is set to the upper one whereas the SPD SL pedal on my BMC is set to the middle one. What I wanted to ask was:


Is this a “switch” thingy and is it there to enable you to adjust the tension of the pedal for clipping/unclipping?


J

 

[vickster]

No information on the box?
Change the setting and see if any different?
Or they could be stiffer because they are new?
Exact same pedal on both bikes?

There's always a YT vid through Google


View: https://youtu.be/gLou_AD6hHw

 

[arch684]

The switch on my spd-sl is set at the top position.the tension for uncliping is set by a small alen key

 

[Glasgow44]

The switch on my spd-sl is set at the top position.the tension for uncliping is set by a small alen key

Ah ok - I thought it was just a matter of flicking the switch up or down.