road to mtb shoe conversion?

(J. T) said:

I've got a pair of SIDI road shoes which I love dearly but bought
before I knew enough about cycling shoes to know that I wanted MTB
shoes. I run SPD's with them. I love touring and have recently done
some off-road riding with them. The bare plastic soles are incredibly
worn down and make it difficult to walk (no traction).

I always figured road shoes would be great off-road, as the cleat
would dig right into the ground surface.

Quoted message said:

I can't really justify buying another pair of cycling shoes at this
point, so I was wondering if there was some way to put some kind of
rubber lug on the sole to protect it and make it easier to walk. I was
thinking about buying the replacement lugs SIDI sells for its MTB
shoes and somehow grafting those on. Any ideas? Anyone tried
something like this before?

I did. I cut pieces of a cheap sandal to use as rubber tread to keep
my cleat off the road and use rubber cement to attach. The rubber
cement did not hold for long at all. I should have used epoxy. Now I
have nice SPD sandals to use instead of the road shoes, and intend
to use the road shoes only on a TT bike I'm building...

Screws might also work; you'll probably want to countersink the
heads into the top of the sole kind of opposite the cleat bolts.
Actually, extra cleat nuts&bolts might be perfect; I'm visualizing a
small round rubber foot of some sort that has a recessed hole for a
bolt, but I can't remember where I've seen them; I think they're
quite common, maybe on furniture or something. I'd say 3/4"
diameter, 3/4" deep.
--
Rick Onanian

Quoted message said:

Any ideas? Anyone tried
something like this before?

Have a soemaker glue some rubber pads to the sole. Not ideal but better.
Phil Brown

If you want to bolt something into the sole of a shoe and not have the
screw head protruding in the insole, you can use t-bolts. The will
work great at holding pretty mcuh anything on the sole. A t-bolt is a
bolt with a flat round head that has three prongs. The prongs dig into
the insole of the shoe as you tighten the screw. It ends up resting
completely flat against the insole. did this description make sense?.
If you are not sure, go to the hardware store and ask for t bolts.
It'll make sense as soon as you see them.

Andres

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Quoted message said:

(J. T) said:

I've got a pair of SIDI road shoes which I love dearly but bought
before I knew enough about cycling shoes to know that I wanted MTB
shoes. I run SPD's with them. I love touring and have recently done
some off-road riding with them. The bare plastic soles are incredibly
worn down and make it difficult to walk (no traction).

I always figured road shoes would be great off-road, as the cleat
would dig right into the ground surface.

Quoted message said:

I can't really justify buying another pair of cycling shoes at this
point, so I was wondering if there was some way to put some kind of
rubber lug on the sole to protect it and make it easier to walk. I was
thinking about buying the replacement lugs SIDI sells for its MTB
shoes and somehow grafting those on. Any ideas? Anyone tried
something like this before?

I did. I cut pieces of a cheap sandal to use as rubber tread to keep
my cleat off the road and use rubber cement to attach. The rubber
cement did not hold for long at all. I should have used epoxy. Now I
have nice SPD sandals to use instead of the road shoes, and intend
to use the road shoes only on a TT bike I'm building...

Screws might also work; you'll probably want to countersink the
heads into the top of the sole kind of opposite the cleat bolts.
Actually, extra cleat nuts&bolts might be perfect; I'm visualizing a
small round rubber foot of some sort that has a recessed hole for a
bolt, but I can't remember where I've seen them; I think they're
quite common, maybe on furniture or something. I'd say 3/4"
diameter, 3/4" deep.

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J. T said:

I've got a pair of SIDI road shoes which I love dearly but bought
before I knew enough about cycling shoes to know that I wanted MTB
shoes. I run SPD's with them. I love touring and have recently done
some off-road riding with them. The bare plastic soles are incredibly
worn down and make it difficult to walk (no traction).

I can't really justify buying another pair of cycling shoes at this
point, so I was wondering if there was some way to put some kind of
rubber lug on the sole to protect it and make it easier to walk. I was
thinking about buying the replacement lugs SIDI sells for its MTB
shoes and somehow grafting those on. Any ideas? Anyone tried
something like this before?

_ Sure, while have not done this with bike shoes, I have with
hiking/climbing shoes. You need a strong contact cement.
Barge is a well know brand that works well. Next you need
rubber, depending on exactly what you want this can be
anything from old inner tubes to 5.10 dot stealth rubber.
If you have an old pair of running shoes, you can likely
remove the sole with a heat gun.

Follow the directions on the glue exactly. If you can stand
it, waiting longer for the glue to setup before putting the
two pieces in contact will work better. Make sure they are
aligned exactly, you only get one chance. Contact cement
works best when there are no spaces to fill, so make sure
the rubber fits snugly on the sole before applying the glue.

_ It would probably be a good idea to test the glue on a small
spot of the shoe first. I've never melted anything with
contact cement, but better safe than sorry.

_ Booker C. Bense

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(J. T) may have said:

I can't really justify buying another pair of cycling shoes at this
point, so I was wondering if there was some way to put some kind of
rubber lug on the sole to protect it and make it easier to walk. I was
thinking about buying the replacement lugs SIDI sells for its MTB
shoes and somehow grafting those on. Any ideas? Anyone tried
something like this before?

Take them to a shoe repair place (not one of the franchise shops that
simply drops them off to someone else to have the work done, you want
a *real* shoe repair place) and tell them what you want. There are a
couple of possible ways to do what you're looking for, but the
probability of success will depend to a large degree on the material
used in the existing outersole. If it's polyethlyene or one of a
couple of close relatives, *nothing* will stick to it well enough to
make the pads stay there very long, and glue may be the only real
option if the sole is too stiff and thin.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Any ideas? Anyone tried
something like this before?

Have a soemaker glue some rubber pads to the sole. Not ideal but better.
Phil Brown

While you're there see if he'll order you some Cats Paw Shoe Glue...
that stuff is great!

A little Cats Paw and some old rubber matt... or cut up tire treds no
that I think about it.

Save the time and effort buy some cheep mtn shoes .Till you can afford some
Sidi's .The on line bike shops have some shoe's for 30$ they will last at
least 1 season.