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Quick cleat question…

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  • December 28, 2019 at 5:46 pm #30365
    Glyno

    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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  • December 30, 2019 at 3:52 pm #954083
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    HLaB

    Rather than mucking about too

    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.

    December 29, 2019 at 8:41 am #954081
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    Glyno

    That’s great, thanks
     

    That’s great, thanks 🙂

     

    December 28, 2019 at 9:20 pm #954079
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    Griff500

    TheBillder wrote:

    TheBillder wrote:
    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!

    December 28, 2019 at 8:12 pm #954077
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    TheBillder

    Perhaps, from a very long
    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.

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