Road Cycling - !st time buyer clipless pedals

Looking for a pair of clipless pedals for my 2003 Tcr1 with super easy entry and exit with good feel and reliability. Around $75.00 bucks.What do you all recommend. This pairing up with shoes need's to be clarrified- a co worker wants to sell me a pair of shimano pd m515 pedals,but i believe there for mountain bikes and seem kinda flimsy. Thanks

The m515s are durable and the cleats will outlast just about any road cleat, but if you are riding road get some road pedals.

While I ride and like Look, and you can get some for $75, go ahead and get some Speedplay X-3s for about $100.

Mountian cleats will fit most mountian shoes, there are no (that I can think of) road cleats that fit mountian shoes. Mountian shoes have a treaded sole, road shoes are smooth sole.

Lot's of good options at $75 or so. The Speedplay X3's are good but you should be aware of the free float feature. I have Zero's myself and love them but they were $175. I also bought some brand new Shimano Ultegra SL's for $95 off ebay and they are terrific. Traditional Look style entry/exit with just enough float. And they look great.

55/Rad

In a LBS recommend me the Look pedals, for the entry level biker, because of the easy entry/exit, and they were right, the look pedals are very nice. I'm new on the sport, and I've been using my looks for 3 month and didn't have any fall.

I bought the pp206 (http://www.lookcyclesusa.com/pp206.htm) for 69$.

Good Luck.

I know lots of people who have SPDs on their road bike. They like the double sided enrty.

Been using them for a while because i needed to get cheap pedals and i liked the idea of the double-sided entry.
Indestructible. Bashed them against sidewalks and still working perfectly. The only complaint i have is that they are on the heavy side and not the best thing to look at, but they haven't created any hotspots for me (and i've ridden them for centuries) so i'm quite happy with them. No involuntary unclips, not bull****.

I started with M515's... used them for about 1.5 years.. then decided I wanted to Try Speedplay X-3's... They are both great, double sided pedals, with easy clip in and out...

I just happen to like the Speedplays better... the clip-out is a bit different than the M515's,,, but not too bad once you get used to it

JEff

I had the M515s on both of my bikes for a while, and I recently switched to the R540 SPD-SL pedal. I liked the M515s because they were seemingly indestructable, but I found that I could pull out of them if I sprinted hard enough, and that was with the single-release cleat.

Also, if you are gonna buy these pedals, get a fairly stiff shoe, becuase these pedals have a tiny contact area. I rode with the shimano M037 shoes (I think thats the model number) and while they were fairly walkable, the sole wasn't stiff enough for these pedals, and I got hotspots and numbness on the ball of my foot from them a couple times.

I think the M515s would be good beginner pedals for you, but see if you can get them as take offs, as many of the new road bikes come with them on them stock, and "serious" roadies swap them out immediatly. I saw a pair at my shop for $40, with cleats. And make sure you get the model SH51 cleats, not the SH55s. you'll pull out of the sh55s really easily...

Thanks,ordering the speedplay X3's, appreciate the advice...

Another vote for the Speedplays. Like a previous poster, I have the Zeros but those can be fairly pricey. In the under $100 range, I would suggest the X/3 too. The big difference between the X and Zero pedals is that the Zeros have adjustable float. Both are double-sided, easy to maintain and very easy to use. I have also used Speedplay Frogs on my roadbike but the cleats didn't work too well with my road shoes.