Seriously.

so i can pay $100 for shimano shoes that nashbar sells for $30?

no, so you can ask someone who actually has experience in what you're looking for instead of randomly posting jpegs until they happen to match up.
an lbs will show you what it is you need. after that, you can save four dollars and buy it online, hopefully in the wrong size so i can laugh after you post pics of that too.

Haha

Let me give you some real advice. If you're going to buy SPD-SL's, do yourself a favour and buy the latest reivsion of those pedals. Decreased weight, increased contact area (huge increase) and metal pedal body. They were going for $5 more than teh R540 which should be considered deprecated/obsolete.

If your'e going to buy them, PD-5610 is the model.

Yes they will.

give the guy a break
 

Yes it will work as the shoes are a three bolt pattern compatible shoe
I always buy online too as it is much more economical LBS are for suckers who give out money so that the owners can race porches on the weekends and drive brand new Alfas.

VROOM VROOM!!

http://www.barelyenough.org/photos/b...ails.sized.jpg

your pedals should have come with cleats.

SpOOki
Good comeback
Perhaps Moshiii can laugh at your stupid signature which clearly demonstrates your inability to differentiate between rotating and non rotating mass.

The car pictured is more Putt Putt than Vroom Vroom

If you're trolling a bike forum to be an ass and not help then you should questions your existence.

Anyways I'm having a hard time visualizing how the SPD-SL cleats clip into the SPD-SL and tried to look over google to find some explanation of this.

I hope that wasn't aimed at me.
the cleats you posted are upside down

Forward tip of SPD-SL hooks into the front of the pdal. The entire rear part of the pdal is spring loaded where the rear end of the cleat would hit. This spring loaded hinge move backwards as you apply force downwards moves out of the way until you seat the cleat and snaps back, locking it in.

Ahh okay I see now. Thanks so much

YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR ****ING ONLINE BIKE SHOPS ARE RUINING AMERICA.

support your LBS. thanks :D

what if your LBS is all condescending roadies that sell kits to old men on cannondales

its exactly that kind of attitude that makes you a prime target of being talked down too.

of course they sell expensive road kits to old guys in lycra - thats where the goddamn money is. now on the other hand if all you kids would stop being giant tool bags all the time and started spending money at home, then they'd probably be more responsive to your desires.

chances are the guys at that shop are already doing business with fixed gear riders. i'd be willing to bet money at least one of them even rides fixed. most shops can order qbp and if not can acquire nearly anything you'd need and the experience, know-how, and tools to install it.

Since I work at a shop - this is about 100% accurate. It's actually quite funny, even though we cater to primarily the commuter market on geared bike, nearly everyone (staff) ride fixed gears.

Depends where you live. Theres only one bike shop here thats any good and they only specialise in mountain bikes and there 35 km from my house. Theres only one bike shop in my neighborhood, and the owner is a grand a-hole.
The other day i was tring to explain to a mechanic at a bike shop what a fixed gear was, he keep insisting what i had was a coaster brake.:p

I keep clicking and I keep not laughing.

+1. Although I do find it funny how the bike industry has made shoes so f***ing complicated.

Here is a brief run down of the basics:

There are two classifications of shoes/pedals: road and mountain (there are more but this is just the basics).

There are a whole lot of different bolt-patterns for cleats. A bolt-pattern is the arrangement of the holes for the bolts that screw the cleat onto the shoe. However there are two that are the most widely used - the SPD (two bolt) pattern and the LOOK (three bolt) pattern.

Pretty much all mountain bike cleats use the SPD pattern.

Most road bike cleats use the LOOK pattern (including the SPD-SLs).

One very important thing to keep in mind is that when a pedal says it is SPD (or whatever) compatible it doesn't mean it's compatible with SPD cleats, it means that the cleats used by the pedals are compatible with the SPD bolt-pattern.

Pretty much all mountain bike shoes use the SPD pattern and only the SPD pattern.

Road bike shoes often have multiple patterns (SPD, SPD-R, LOOK, Speedplay) but almost all of them will have the LOOK three bolt pattern as this is the most common.


Here are a list of different popular pedals and what kind of bolt pattern they use:

Pedal = bolt-pattern
SPDs - SPD
Eggbeaters - SPD
Time Atacs - SPD
Speedplay frogs - SPD

SPD-SLs - LOOK
LOOKs - LOOK
LOOK Keos - LOOK
Speedplays (road) - Speedplay

EDIT: Also while many road shoes have SPD bolt-patterns on them, most mountain bike cleats are made such that they rely on a mountain bike shoes tread to keep them from getting worn down. In general if you are going to use mountain bike pedals, use mountain bike shoes (and that goes double for road pedals - most won't work with mountain bike shoes at all).

do not be useful in this thread

it ruins mah laughs

since i dont like being talked down to, I don't go to my LBS (i go on occasion to buy little things like bartape and such, but generally they dont carry the product I want, and rather then having them order it i can just get it delivered to my house).