3-hole LOOK good for 3-hole SPD?
01-14-08, 12:33 PM
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No
01-14-08, 04:58 PM
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Most road shoes are 3 hole, most mtb are 2. Before someone says that SPD's can be 2 hole road pedals I'd like to point out that SPD's (the 2 hole metal ones, not the 3 hole plastic ones) are a miserable choice for a road cleat and a search will turn up a million reasons why.
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Some Road shoes come with the 3-hole Look/road and 2-hole SPD/MTB patterns. If you decide (against jccaclimber and many others) to go with a 2-hole pattern for road biking, you'd might as well get a MTB or touring shoe with a recessed sole so you can at least realize the advantage of better walkability.
01-14-08, 05:30 PM
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Isn't SPD-R that short lived weird one with the two holes? I believe Lance refused to use those SPD-R pedals, preferring to stick with his 90's era Shimano-made-by-Look pedals, which finally gave us the SPD-SL.
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01-14-08, 07:09 PM
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Shimano still sells the SPD-R? I thought they were done with it. The Shimano road shoes certainly aren't drilled for them anymore.
Or is it a track thing and you have guys going on Ebay or buying NOS parts and hording them?
Shimano still sells the SPD-R? I thought they were done with it. The Shimano road shoes certainly aren't drilled for them anymore.
Or is it a track thing and you have guys going on Ebay or buying NOS parts and hording them?
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"If you’re new enough [to racing] that you would ask such question, then i would hazard a guess that if you just made up a workout that sounded hard to do, and did it, you’d probably get faster." --the tiniest sprinter
Cat 2 Track, Cat 3 Road.
"If you’re new enough [to racing] that you would ask such question, then i would hazard a guess that if you just made up a workout that sounded hard to do, and did it, you’d probably get faster." --the tiniest sprinter
01-14-08, 07:17 PM
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Spot on on all counts. Shimano dont make them anymore.
