Originally Posted by
noglider
electrik, is that your shoe? Actually, it looks like a cowboy boot.
I built up the sole of my sandals a bit with Shoe Goo, hoping to eliminate the grinding. No luck yet, so I'll pile on some more. I wonder if you could do that with boots like that. It looks like the cleat mount was just screwed into the boot's sole.
I don't even know if this applies, if it doesn't feel free to ignore me.
With spds, they would always grind on concrete, but usually not on wood floors or such. I tried a couple of different shoes, always the same result.
I switched to Crank Brothers (I've heard of the same results with "Look" mountain cleats), and now my shoes never click on wood floors (I have wood floors where I live) and rarely (though sometimes) grind on concrete. I did have to use the shims to make the cleat stick out a little more to get them to work with the Acid pedals, so if you didn't have to do that they might never hit. Just an fyi.