Originally Posted by
_ForceD_
I have altered and repaired old road shoes using T-nuts (
https://a.co/d/fj4L4vt). Of course the you’d have to simply drill the holes in the precise locations on the soles.
Those barbs on the circumference of the nut were a bit too long so I had to cut them down. Take out all in sole liners so that you can get right down to actual sole. I used Shoo-goo type glue to keep them in place. — Dan
Dan,
Me too!
Except I called them "claw nuts" (I am in Japan so here they are called something else in Japanese).
I did not use the shoe glue but will in future. So far I have only done it to Sidi-fy the heels of Shimano shoes for a replaceable heel pad, and to replace a single rusted cleat bolt never a set of six.
Your Most Recent Cycling-related Repair
Originally Posted by
ussprinceton
this
I have about 5 pairs of shoes. Most or all of them don't take two bolt cleats. I want several pairs of shoes because when it rains (it is the rainy season here now) I sometimes have several pairs of shoes that are drying out.
Originally Posted by
sfrider
You can also put Shimano ED500 pedals on your bike, it's a wide platform road pedal that accepts 2-hole SPD cleats. Perfect for base training (PZ2), touring, social rides, beginners, etc as MTB shoes are a whole lot more walkable.
I used to use those at first but these days I am into spd-sls.
Anyway, I bought some old SH-R133 for 12usd
SH-R133L
I am not sure whether the soles will be to my liking. They are "Carbon fibre composite" and I am not sure if that means that they are carbon fibre soled shoes (since carbon fibre soled shoes are carbon fibre composite shoes) or whether they have some carbon fibre (composite) plates in a nylon sole. The soles don't look the same as my other carbon fibre Shimano shoes.
I posted recently saying that when using a glute centric pedalling style the stomp becomes less important so shoes with less hard soles can be used, but lately I have been leveraging my whole body into my pedal stroke - sort of through my back and arms to the bars -- and like the rock hard heel cupped Shimano R200s (they have a heel cup as part of the carbon sole) best. They are also really ancient and patched with carbon fibre. I never customized them to my feet so I am hoping that the R133s will be equivalent.