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Originally Posted by
tatfiend
I have never seen or heard of metal conversion assemblies. The plastic ones are offered at the below link.
http://www.amazon.com/Dimension-Inst...556438&sr=1-31
those are interesting, but they seem to be more of a "spd cleat adapter for your shoe" thing. also, with toe clips do they feel like a regular clipless shoe when you use them, i.e can you unclip and clip at will. also, they don't look like they would be fun to walk in.
I had some of the cheap Nashbar plastic ones and they flat out didn't work. I have some cheap platform pedals that I swap. I pedal wrench (or 15mm) and about 1 min and now there's platforms. The dual pedals looks cool.
Per my recollection they were intended to be uses just as toe clips are used on normal pedals, ie: pull shoes from adapters while leaving the platform adapters attached to the pedals. I gave my pair away some time ago as I found them to be unsatisfactory due to hanging fully upside down and being inconvenient to flip for shoe insertion compared to normal toe clip equipped pedals or clipless pedals. I may not have been patient enough to learn the proper technique.
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