Originally Posted by Eggplant Jeff
I bought these:
http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?c...eid=&pagename=
Either they suck, or they aren't actually SPD compatible even though they look like it.
Using SPD cleats you can clip in, but you can't clip out. Easily anyway. Even with the tension set all the way loose, I've fallen twice and nearly fallen I don't know how many times when I was barely able to get my foot out in time.
I have never had a single problem with my other bike, which has Performance Campus pedals which are SPD on one side.
As the others said, did you use the correct cleats? There are several very similar, but yet different enough to cause problems, SPD-type pedals/cleats. Even among the Nashbar SPD's, there is more than one type of cleat. As you may already know, the Nashbars and most of the other economical SPD knock-offs are made by Wellgo. I've had excellent luck with Wellgo-branded pedals, and the most common cleat the Wellgo brand pedals use is the Wellgo 98A (which some of the Nashbar pedals use too, and one of the "Nashbar brand" cleats Nashbar sells is actually a Wellgo 98A). And 98A's are completely compatible with pedals that use the Shimano SH51 single release cleats, btw-