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12-24-23 | 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mtracer

Looks like there is and adapter for this. While there are many, many to adapt a SPD cleat to a 3-bolt shoe, this one looks to go the other way around, what the OP needs. Looks like it's going to add significantly to the stack height.

https://www.amazon.com/CyclingDeal-C...c1df98776&th=1

Thanks! That looks like a good unit.

Now, if my shoes looked like that one and the adapter was sitting on the sole lugs and not the flat in the area around the SPD cleats, I wouldn't think twice about cutting or grinding the lugs until the adapter sat flat. (I use 1/4" plate s under my right cleats to make up a right leg that came from the factory short. I do exactly that to get the adapter plate to fit in some of my shoes.)

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