Originally Posted by
Fredo76
The first time I tried clipless, it took half a mile of me trying, to get my second (right) shoe clipped in. I thought "This is ridiculous!". I'm not sure why that first time was so difficult. Either I got better or the cleats got easier. I may have loosened the mechanism to make clipping in and out a little easier. You may want to do that too, at first.
I wonder if new cleats have relatively sharp edges making clipping in more tricky than after they wear from clipping in and out.