Originally Posted by
Lazyass
I got a set of Wellgo SPD one sided road pedals a long time ago with a bike I bought. The SPD cleats with flat road shoes was really horrible because it was hard to clip in, I couldn't get any traction to get the cleat lined up. The cleats totally scratched up the pedal as well. Tried some of those plastic SH40 cleat adapters and they made it a little easier to walk in but they got destroyed in short order since I still had to slide the cleats all around before they would engage.
Last week I bought a Centurion, it came with some old Wellgo SPD MTB pedals, and he gave me his old Shimano road shoes which I suspect to be early '90's vintage. They had the old SH71 cleats with the pontoon thing which I had never used before. I put them on my shoes and they are awesome. Easy to clip in and easy to walk in.
Thanks for the heads up. I was actually wondering about using those pontoon cleats with a 2 bolt equipped road shoe like the RT3 or one of the Pearl Izumis, but I didn't know the model name/number.
I ended up going with PD-A600 pedals and RT82 shoes for now, mostly because I figure Shimano must have designed these to work together. The RT 82 shoes have a fairly narrow toebox, and I don't have wide feet. We shall see. I miss the old leather shoes that would stretch to conform to your feet.
That still leaves the problem of a decent shoe for use with my toe clip bikes. I wish I would have kept one of my pairs of slotted cleats from BITD. 46 does not show up on ebay.