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Old 04-25-05 | 10:25 PM
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luker
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Bikes: Crap. The box is not big enough...

Originally Posted by khuon
I used to have Speedplay Frogs on my roadbike. Then I switched shoes and my new shoes (Sidi road shoes) weren't drilled with SPD-style mounting holes so I had to get the Sidi SPD adapters. Unfortunately the adapters didn't have a large enough cleat box to accomodate the Frog cleats so I had to trim the heavy plastic to get them to fit. It took me a couple of hours with the dremel. The problem was that I was using a cordless dremel which would crap out after about 15 minutes of continuous use and there was a lot of heavy plastic to trim so I needed to recharge the thing a number of times. And while the dremel did the job, needless to say the whole setup was less than elegant. Stack height was high, adapter was flexy, lots of extra weight, etc... I switched to pure road pedals with cleats that bolted up nicely to my shoes shortly afterwards so the whole thing became moot.
ya, I whittled away a pair of sidi winter shoes for frogs. The biggest job that I ever did was slot a metal roof so that I could slide a new set of metal panels under for a covered porch add-on. My rotozip was 60 miles away. I used a few cutoff wheels, but it did the job okay.
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