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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On 11 May 2004 18:21:08 -0700, [email hidden] (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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<[email hidden]>,

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.