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Quick cleat question...
On the basis that at junctions etc I unclip my left foot almost 100% of the time, would the life of my cleats be increased by swapping them from left to right shoe occasionally?
(Shimano SPD btw)
TIA
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Rather than mucking about too much with my cleat angle I just tend to replace the cleat I put down more often than the one I dont. I'm running plastic spd-sl's though and it was a very long time before I had to replace my old metal spd cleats.
That's great, thanks
Perhaps, from a very long time indeed to even longer... I'm still waiting for my first set of spd cleats to wear out and would worry more about mis-aligning the cleats when transferring.
This! I'd guess I change my cleats around 12000km. Life of mine is more related to wear during walking, even though I never walk far, and avoid walking on gravel if possible, so there would be no benefit in swapping. A tenner in 12k km is not worth worrying about.
Edit: Maybe I should add that my typical 80km rides are non stop, so I undoubtedly unclip less than an urbanite!