Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
Me either. My experience
in this thread if interested.
As for Speedplays with the maintenance....I hardly ever lube them anymore. Maybe 1-2 times a year. That's about as often as I shoot grease into them as well.
I never use cleat covers. I don't have problems walking in them, and while I don't go walking on beaches I tend to walk on whatever I want to walk on and I don't really have problems.
If the cleat has issues trying to clip in I just bang the cleat against the pedal to clear it and I'm on my way.
I never had any maintenance issues with any Look pedals I ever owned. To this day I keep a version of their first ARC pedal around as a backup pedal system. Looks just work. Replace the cleat every couple of years, etc...At least until KEO.
All of this doesn't really matter though. Ilike my Speedplays because of the float. End of story. If that meant that I had to buy new cleats every month I would do it. The float is worth it to me.
If the OP isn't interested in float then I would say, again, that he should stick with the Look pedals.
I have heard other reports of broken KEO cleats (and also pedal spindles), so I do not doubt that it happens. But I have read the thread you referenced, and that was not an innocent cleat break -- that was "user error" with your friend crashing and obviously putting a rather odd force on the cleat. If the cleat had not broken, your friend may have suffered a leg or knee injury. All things considered, I think he was lucky.