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Old 05-24-18, 10:40 AM
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donheff
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New SPD cleats stick

My wife got a new pair of shoes yesterday and when we went out today she could barely get her shoe out of the pedal. She could unclip by turning her heel into the bike but would have to really jam it outwards to break loose. I took a close look at the new cleats with the old ones next to them and noticed that the inside shoulder on the side that engages the front of the pedal clip appeared to have a slight bulge compared to the cleat on her old shoe. I swapped the cleats out and problem solved. I have never run into this before. If we were just starting out with clipless I don't know if we would have solved it. We would probably just think clipping out is hard. I guess a bike store tech might have seen the problem right away but it was not obvious unless you compared the old and new cleats next to each other.
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