Dang and blast...

[[XAP]Bob]

Pulled the cleat plate clean off the pedal this morning.

Fortunately the second Traffix van had a set of grips so I could take it off my shoe! Still a pain to cycle without cleats...

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,

Pulled the cleat plate clean off the pedal this morning.

Fortunately the second Traffix van had a set of grips so I take it off my shoe! Still a pain to cycle without cleats...

That's the trouble if your are a bit to athletic
Is there no other system of better gear available at all

[[XAP]Bob]

They weren't expensive pedals, but the cleat plate was held on by two screws. One of which has snapped clean off (still in the pedal) and the head is nowhere to be found. The other just seems to have pulled straight out. Don't know if I've stripped all the threads of it somewhere or what...


What do you mean by better gear? I'm glad it didn't tear the cleat off my new shoes (which I've had happen before as well)

And people say you can't 'pull' on cleats...

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,

They weren't expensive pedals, but the cleat plate was held on by two screws. One of which has snapped clean off (still in the pedal) and the head is nowhere to be found. The other just seems to have pulled straight out. Don't know if I've stripped all the threads of it somewhere or what...


What do you mean by better gear? I'm glad it didn't tear the cleat off my new shoes (which I've had happen before as well)

And people say you can't 'pull' on cleats...

Better gear meaning is there any better more reliable gear / system?
Not your gear is cheap.
As this on recumbents is a weak point as others have said?

[[XAP]Bob]

Not sure it's a particularly weak point - it was a cold morning, and I had tightened the plate back up a few week ago - Possibly that loosening was just a failure precursor.

SPDs shouldn't be more at risk of this than other cleat styles I don't imagine - although if I were to consider a switch I'd want the cleats to be SPD compatible...
There is also the issue that I want cleats to be 'tight' on the trike, and relatively loose on the bike.
Neither of my uprights are cleated, but they aren't used as heavily.

[rjb]

I've a few pairs of spd's cannondale coda ones which have also lost the countersunk screw heads off one of the retaining pair. When I noticed I strapped the plate back down using a thin wire strap wound round the plate and the tension adjusting screw. Been ok now for many years.

[[XAP]Bob]

I shall get some more bolts - assuming of course that I can get the snapped off portion out of the pedal body.

In the meantime I have spare pedals I can put on - just not in the office...

[mercalia]

maybe its the pedal pixie ( there is one for every cycle problem ) telling you to go for normal pedals

[[XAP]Bob]

Not on a bent trike - don't want my feet slipping off under any circumstances

[nez]

If it's any consolation I've had it on a Speedplay frog. Then of course they don't supply new bolts and more common bolts have to be ground because the countersink is too big. Grr


I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my iPad using hovercraft full of eels.

[[XAP]Bob]

The spd side of the pedals is toast...

One bolt sheared in place, that'll be a sod to get out. The other pulled all the threads out of the pedal, to resurrect will be to drill out and thread for larger bolts

[SleepyJoe]

The exactly the same thing happened to me on Thursday- shamano single sided spd pedal, flat on other side. One bolt missing with damaged thread and second bolt sheared off with stub left in pedal. I only noticed when I got off the bike and my right shoe was somewhat taller than the left! Time to look for new pedals.....

[[XAP]Bob]

Which Shimano model?
How old?

(Mine weren't Shimano - Looking online I can see ones that look pretty much identical at £20

[foxyrider]

This must be a new 'problem' - i've never heard of this before. I've had cleat bolts come loose and drop out but never the pedal plate - in fact i've never managed to get one off a pedal when i've wanted/needed to!

Sounds like a case of too much tinkering!

[[XAP]Bob]

I've used that pedal for a while - since I got the Rapto...

I shifted it to the trike in December, and within a week or so the pedal plate had loosened...
I stopped fairly swiftly and saw what was wrong - so I grabbed the toolkit and tightened the screws.

Then a month later one snaps and one takes all the threads out of the pedal.
There is likely a correlation between the events - but I can't see what may have caused the initial loosening - it's not as if the actual pedal body is touched as part of removing and refitting cranks (I didn't even take the pedals out of the cranks!)