Originally Posted by bluebottle1
This is good advice. You should also put some grease on the screws that hold your cleats to your shoes. Without it, road salts and crap can cause the screws to fuse to the plate in the shoe. Then, if you need to change out cleats for any reason, you're potentially looking at needing new shoes (or at least spending a lot of time and energy trying to remove the old cleats).
Lithium grease costs about a buck or two for a twenty ounce can. I've had the same can of the stuff for about five years now and it's not even close to empty.
I wouldn't grease the screws, I had problems with mine coming out. However, blue locktite ("medium" strength) works great. It keeps them from backing out, but the locktite itself seals the threads so other junk doesn't get in there, so the screws don't get permanently rusted in place or anything.
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