I need to buy another pair of shoes for my vintage bike, the pair I have now is on its last legs. Trying to find a pair without
taking out a loan on my house

I noticed MKS makes a cleat, MKS MC-2, that attaches to the SPD holes on my Sidi clipless road shoe and allows
the shoe to be used with our old clip and strap pedals.
I am thinking about trying it. Anyone use it ?

I duck-ducked that cleat and saw that it uses the 3-bolt LOOK pattern, not the 2-bolt SPD.

I use the Exustar (also LOOK pattern) aluminum cleats on pedals with chrome steel rattraps. I love 'em. Now they will chew up aluminum rattraps. They are also deep and narrow so they hold very well. (As well as anything I ever raced with BITD.) Being aluminum with meat, they last a good long time being walked on and are fully up to killing a bunch of floors. Those MKS ones should be roughly the opposite at both. (And probably more treacherous to walk on.)

I have yet to see SPD pattern traditional slotted cleats.

When choosing modern shoes for use with slot cleats look carefully at where the seams on the sides of the shoes lie in respect to where the strap will cross over the foot. Shoes designed for straps and cleats don't have any seams where the strap crosses over because the tightly tensioned strap will, with miles and time, wear away the stitching causing the seam to open up.
Brent

Thanks for the info.

I have the pattern wrong, yes it is the 3 bolt Look cleat pattern. I will check out the Exustar cleats. Sounds like they would be
a good match with my Campy rat traps. Thanks for the info.

I looked at the Exustar website and can't find the aluminum cleats you are talking about. Can you steer me in the right direction ?
I like the idea of having the cleats out of aluminum

I'd also like to know. I spent some time last might looking for anything that mounts to a 3-hole shoe.

I thought it might be fun to try cleats one more time, so I can remember how much fun it is to fall over sideways at a traffic light.

I am concerned that plastic cleats will be too thick and render the shoes less than walkable.

I have a pair of TA Anquetil cleats packed away somewhere. They are aluminum and are fairly thin/shallow.

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They look nice, very vintage. Too bad 46 is the largest size. I need a 48 (or possibly 47 if the run large).

More searching yielded these plastic cleats.

For reference: TA Specialites models #38, #40 are meant for road use. #39 is "pista" for track use (deeper cleat, too hard to get out of)

The Exustar E-C101Al is a "pista" cleat (likely too deep).

Ebay seems to have a bunch of authentic, vintage TA Specialites cleats.

I've found that modern shoes are too high to use toe clips easily.

YMMV

Yellow Jersey sells these cleats to use modern shoes with traditional pedals:

https://www.yellowjersey.org/tocleat.html
You may need to use MTB toeclips, as modern shoes tend to have a taller toe box than traditional bike shoes.