I hesitated before leaping directly from SPDs to Looks and got a pair of Nashbar Ventoux . . . just to kind of confirm that this style of pedal is easier to get into than my single-sided faux road SPDs. They are. But when I twist out, it's easy to over-rotate the foot, resulting in the cleat kind of re-locking itself back to the pedal.
Does anyone know whether this is something peculiar to the Ventoux only, or is it something Looks do too?
MikeE, Moving in a stepwise fashion towards fancy-pants Look road pedals.
it's easy to over-rotate the foot, resulting in the cleat kind of re-locking itself back to the pedal.
This doesn't occur with Looks because the part which grabs the cleat is convex instead of the concave design of the Nashbar pedals.
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I hesitated before leaping directly from SPDs to Looks and got a pair of Nashbar Ventoux . . . just to kind of confirm that this style of pedal is easier to get into than my single-sided faux road SPDs. They are. But when I twist out, it's easy to over-rotate the foot, resulting in the cleat kind of re-locking itself back to the pedal.
Does anyone know whether this is something peculiar to the Ventoux only, or is it something Looks do too?
MikeE, Moving in a stepwise fashion towards fancy-pants Look road pedals.
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I hesitated before leaping directly from SPDs to Looks and got a pair of Nashbar Ventoux . . . just to kind of confirm that this style of pedal is easier to get into than my single-sided faux road SPDs. They are. But when I twist out, it's easy to over-rotate the foot, resulting in the cleat kind of re-locking itself back to the pedal.
Does anyone know whether this is something peculiar to the Ventoux only, or is it something Looks do too?
Are you using the cleat that comes with the Ventoux, or a standard LOOK cleat? The Ventoux (made by Welgo) cleat should work fine - at least my Welgos did. But they work miserably with a LOOK cleat despite their claim of compatibility - so back to Nashbar went the Welgos.
In any case, other than the slight weight and cost penalty I would heartily recommend LOOK. I have been using LOOK (and LOOK "Shimanos"😉 for decades. They are dead reliable, and last forever. They have very positive engagement/disengagement.
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I hesitated before leaping directly from SPDs to Looks and got a pair of Nashbar Ventoux . . . just to kind of confirm that this style of pedal is easier to get into than my single-sided faux road SPDs. They are. But when I twist out, it's easy to over-rotate the foot, resulting in the cleat kind of re-locking itself back to the pedal.
Does anyone know whether this is something peculiar to the Ventoux only, or is it something Looks do too?
Are you using the cleat that comes with the Ventoux, or a standard LOOK cleat? The Ventoux (made by Welgo) cleat should work fine - at least my Welgos did. But they work miserably with a LOOK cleat despite their claim of compatibility - so back to Nashbar went the Welgos.
In any case, other than the slight weight and cost penalty I would heartily recommend LOOK. I have been using LOOK (and LOOK "Shimanos"😉 for decades. They are dead reliable, and last forever. They have very positive engagement/disengagement.
Thanks, everyone. I'm using the Ventoux cleats, so it's a design thing . . . or a "feature"!
