robbyville

As title says... I’ve had the shimano spd sl cleats fitted to my shoes and bike fit for years. Now I’m going to look/keo due to new Garmin Vector 3 pedals. Anyone have any good thoughts as to the swapover or do I need to refit from scratch?

Dopefish905

When I switched I used the center line of the cleats and marked my shoe, I think the center of both are the same, look the side of the cleat for a small line. Felt the same to me afterwards and no issues

robbyville

Thanks! I'll take a look for a center line and see if I can find an equivalency!

TrojanHorse

Get a white china marker (are we allowed to say that anymore) and draw the outline of your current cleat on the shoe before swapping. The shapes are a little bit different but very similar in a lot of ways too. Might help in addition to marking the center line.

robbyville

Great idea thanks!

waters60

I take a sharp knife and trace the outline of my cleats on the bottom of my shoes. Permanent and greatly helps new cleat intallation.

pesty

As others have said, there should be a centerline. IIRC, that should line up with the pedal spindle. If you can't find it, or if it's been worn off, clip the shoe into the pedal and line it up with the spindle and mark it on the sole of the shoe. Swapping between two different systems, it's not going to be exact, but it will be a good point of reference to start out at.

Psimet2001 

SPD-SL cleats are a license of Look. While they aren't the same cleat at all they are extremely similar. As mentioned above get a good outline of where they are now and then match the position with the new cleat as closely as possible paying attention to the fore and aft position as well as twist orientation.

robbyville

Awesome advice, thanks so much folks! Going to swap them out today. building up the new bike next week, yeeha!

TrojanHorse

You're the only guy on this forum with pedals but no bike.

robbyville

Ha, true enough!

fietsbob

Assumed, you have shoes with the fittings to mount both, many are..


I tend to think of the SL being the pontoon stabilizers added to flank the SPD cleat, that is also usable in the walking friendly MTB shoes..

@ my LBS the SPD-SL is a favorite at local spinning classes..

The bigger 3 bolt triangular mounted cleat is indeed an original type, that to have a pedal system in their race bike component group

payed the licence fee to the French company...




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robbyville

In that case I misspoke, my cleats are the traditional shimano spd 3 hole triangular design available for a couple decades now. I didn’t realize that the designation of SL meant the 2 hole mtb/casual design.

Thanks so much for the clarification!
But yep shoes are all good