walk-friendly cleats???

[Eric]

I'm trying to do more commuting on my bikes. Work and school are great
but I have a problem with the errands: all my bikes have Look pedals and
I don't like clonking through the grocery store on the large cleats.
Carrying sandals and changing is a pain in the butt. I want to use the
same shoes for all three bikes. Are there any pedals that use smaller
cleats which are more friendly to walking?
Eric

 

[Harold Buck]

In article <[email protected]>,
Eric <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to do more commuting on my bikes. Work and school are great
> but I have a problem with the errands: all my bikes have Look pedals and
> I don't like clonking through the grocery store on the large cleats.
> Carrying sandals and changing is a pain in the butt. I want to use the
> same shoes for all three bikes. Are there any pedals that use smaller
> cleats which are more friendly to walking?


IIRC, there are mountain biking shoes with a recessed cleat and flxible
shoes (so you can dismount and run if you need to). I can't recall a
brand name.

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

 

[Tamyka Bell]

Eric wrote:
>
> I'm trying to do more commuting on my bikes. Work and school are great
> but I have a problem with the errands: all my bikes have Look pedals and
> I don't like clonking through the grocery store on the large cleats.
> Carrying sandals and changing is a pain in the butt. I want to use the
> same shoes for all three bikes. Are there any pedals that use smaller
> cleats which are more friendly to walking?
> Eric

You could get Speedplays. Your pedals look like a little lollypop and
it's just a hole in your shoe that you clip directly down onto the
pedal. Quite compact and some people really like them, though I've never
used them, and I've heard big guys can bend them.

Tam

 

[trimark]

You can get rubber covers for look cleats, I didn't buy from this shop
it was just the first that came up when I googled for them:
http://www.bikyle.com/LookPedRd.asp

You can also get Shimano cleats and Carnac makes shoes that can be used
to walk on the same as normal shoes. They tend to have a slightly
junkier soles as others said more suitable for mountain biking but
perfectly acceptable for commuting.
http://www.performancebike.com/shop/profile.cfm?SKU=17273&subcategory_ID=2120

Pyro platforms are actually catching on, lots of duathletes use them,
and they are catching on for Olympic distance triathlon, two of the top
four at the 2005 Elite ITU Champs used them.
http://www.trisports.com/pyroplatforms.html

Lots of choices....

 

[3Hank]

I would suggest Crankbrother Eggbeaters or Candy with mountainbike
shoes. The cleats are very small and with the profile of the MTB shoes
they won't even touch the ground when you walk on them.

3Hank

 

[John Hardt]

"Eric" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm trying to do more commuting on my bikes. Work and school are great but
> I have a problem with the errands: all my bikes have Look pedals and I
> don't like clonking through the grocery store on the large cleats.
> Carrying sandals and changing is a pain in the butt. I want to use the
> same shoes for all three bikes. Are there any pedals that use smaller
> cleats which are more friendly to walking?
> Eric

Eric,

I have a pair of cheap Specialized mountain bike shoes that I have used with
both Shimano SPD and Speedplay Frog pedals. In both cases, the cleat on the
bottom of the shoe is small enough that it gets "buried" in the shoe's
knobbies and doesn't touch the ground. I can walk or jog in them with
little problem.

As a side note, I sometimes use these shoes with the frog pedals when I do
sprint tris. Around here the field for sprints is usually so big that the
transition area can be 100 yds long or more. I like to wear these shoes so
I can run in and out of the transition area without wiping out or twisting
my ankle.

John