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  1. I have a pair of shimano touring shoes a bit like these:

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/images/shimano%20shrt30.jpg

    which are quite comfortable and nice to ride in.

    I have recently replaced the cleats as the old ones had worn a fair bit. The
    new cleats now stick out from the sole by a couple of mm or so. Its ok when
    riding but can be a bit skatey on some floor and could really mess up a
    wooden floor. I guess the sole has worn a fair bit.

    Has anyone tried getting the soles of cycling shoes repaired? I remember
    that in the days when we all wore proper shoes you could get new leather or
    rubber soles. Has anyone managed to do similar with cycling shoes?

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  2. AndyMorris said:

    I have a pair of shimano touring shoes a bit like these:

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/images/shimano%20shrt30.jpg

    Quoted message said:

    Has anyone tried getting the soles of cycling shoes repaired?

    In case you are the one who asked me this question last week in the
    greenwich foot tunnel and you ddin't follow my description of where the
    cobbler in Blackheath was, it is here

    http://streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=539597&Y=176161&A=Y&Z=1

    He doesn't front onto the street, you need to go down a short
    passageway between the clotes shop on ther corner and the hedge. IME
    he is skilled /and/ cheap. I would ask him what he thinks

    best wishes
    james

  3. AndyMorris wrote:
    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    I have recently replaced the cleats as the old ones had worn a fair bit. The
    new cleats now stick out from the sole by a couple of mm or so. Its ok when
    riding but can be a bit skatey on some floor and could really mess up a
    wooden floor. I guess the sole has worn a fair bit.

    Has anyone tried getting the soles of cycling shoes repaired? I remember
    that in the days when we all wore proper shoes you could get new leather or
    rubber soles. Has anyone managed to do similar with cycling shoes?

    --
    Andy Morris

    AndyAtJinkasDotFreeserve.Co.UK


    <snip>

    On hard soled racing shoes, I've had success glueing on rubber blocks
    at the toe and heels just to silence the cleats and give a bit more
    grip while walking over hard floors (marble foyer in an office building
    I used to work in). I cut the pieces from an old car fan-belt, glued
    them on with Araldite - it worked well.

    I'm sure you could do somthing similar adding a thinner patch each side
    of the cleat, just to lift the the area at the ball of your foot and
    the cleat a bit more. It'd also want to be thin and carefully placed
    to ensure that you could still click in OK.

    A cobbler or heel bar would have rubber stock, glue etc. in hand, but
    the last time I got a pair of regular shoes resoled (glueing and rubber
    sole on over the original worn leather sole, it was touch and go
    whether it was worth getting done or getting a new pair of shoes.

    hth,

    bookieb

  4. "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>typed

    Quoted message said:
    AndyMorris said:

    I have a pair of shimano touring shoes a bit like these:

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/images/shimano%20shrt30.jpg

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Has anyone tried getting the soles of cycling shoes repaired?

    Quoted message said:

    In case you are the one who asked me this question last week in the
    greenwich foot tunnel and you ddin't follow my description of where the
    cobbler in Blackheath was, it is here

    Quoted message said:

    http://streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=539597&Y=176161&A=Y&Z=1

    Quoted message said:

    He doesn't front onto the street, you need to go down a short
    passageway between the clotes shop on ther corner and the hedge. IME
    he is skilled /and/ cheap. I would ask him what he thinks

    Quoted message said:

    best wishes
    james

    I think Andy lives in Cleckhuddersfax, a L-O-N-G way from Blackheath.

    --
    Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
    Edgware.

  5. Helen Deborah Vecht said:

    "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>typed

    Quoted message said:

    AndyMorris wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Has anyone tried getting the soles of cycling shoes repaired?

    Quoted message said:

    In case you are the one who asked me this question last week in the
    greenwich foot tunnel and you ddin't follow my description of where the
    cobbler in Blackheath was, it is here

    Quoted message said:

    http://streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=539597&Y=176161&A=Y&Z=1

    Quoted message said:

    He doesn't front onto the street, you need to go down a short
    passageway between the clotes shop on ther corner and the hedge. IME
    he is skilled /and/ cheap. I would ask him what he thinks

    Quoted message said:

    I think Andy lives in Cleckhuddersfax, a L-O-N-G way from Blackheath.

    Well in that case he isn't a million miles away from LSR. They are in
    Burnley and specialise in walking boot and running shoe repairs.
    http://www.lsr.gb.com/
    --
    Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

  6. Quoted message said:

    In case you are the one who asked me this question last week in the
    greenwich foot tunnel and you ddin't follow my description of where
    the cobbler in Blackheath was, it is here

    As Helen pointed out I live up north and don't go to London very often.

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  7. Phil Cook said:
    Helen Deborah Vecht said:

    I think Andy lives in Cleckhuddersfax, a L-O-N-G way from Blackheath.

    Well in that case he isn't a million miles away from LSR. They are in
    Burnley and specialise in walking boot and running shoe repairs.
    http://www.lsr.gb.com/

    *Lancashire* Sports Repairs

    We don't go over there very often, worse than London.

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  8. AndyMorris said:
    Phil Cook said:
    Helen Deborah Vecht said:

    I think Andy lives in Cleckhuddersfax, a L-O-N-G way from Blackheath.

    Well in that case he isn't a million miles away from LSR. They are in
    Burnley and specialise in walking boot and running shoe repairs.
    http://www.lsr.gb.com/

    *Lancashire* Sports Repairs

    We don't go over there very often, worse than London.

    At least it's still oop t' North. :-)

    However they do repairs by post. I would send them a letter with some
    pictures and see what they think.
    --
    Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

  9. Phil Cook said:
    AndyMorris said:
    Phil Cook said:

    Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

    > I think Andy lives in Cleckhuddersfax, a L-O-N-G way from
    > Blackheath.

    Well in that case he isn't a million miles away from LSR. They are
    in Burnley and specialise in walking boot and running shoe repairs.
    http://www.lsr.gb.com/

    *Lancashire* Sports Repairs

    We don't go over there very often, worse than London.

    At least it's still oop t' North. :-)

    However they do repairs by post. I would send them a letter with some
    pictures and see what they think.

    Thanks, I'll try a local shoe repairs and if they can't I'll contact LSR.

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    AndyAtJinkasDotFreeserve.Co.UK

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  10. AndyMorris said:

    *Lancashire* Sports Repairs

    We don't go over there very often, worse than London.

    Good grief, your war with Lancashire finished more than 500 years ago!
    Hasn't there been a Truth and Reconciliation Commission yet?

    Mike

  11. Mike Causer said:

    Good grief, your war with Lancashire finished more than 500 years ago!
    Hasn't there been a Truth and Reconciliation Commission yet?

    Aye, lad. They're still down pub.

    R.

  12. In article <pan.2006.05.17.19.51.11.763224
    @firstnamelastname.com.invalid>, Mike Causer

    () said:
    AndyMorris said:

    *Lancashire* Sports Repairs

    We don't go over there very often, worse than London.

    Good grief, your war with Lancashire finished more than 500 years ago!
    Hasn't there been a Truth and Reconciliation Commission yet?

    Some of us are j-u-s-t starting to come round to the idea that /some/
    Lancastrians may almost be human, but if the England cricket team
    continue to play like [censored], we may have to revise this point of view...

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