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not resolvedHi folks,
I have spare cleats ready to go on a new pair of shoes, but I can't find any cleat bolts. They're just standard Shimano SPD cleats.
Does anybody have a spare set of bolts I could scrounge?
Seems a shame to buy a whole new set of cleats just to get the bolts :(
Yep I have some. PM me your contact details and I'll bring them in tomorrow and can meet by mutual convenience.
Dave C
EDIT. I've just bought a set of M520 peddles and it came with cleets and I'm hoping a few bolts. If there are any you can have them. I popped the plastic sleive on the side in my garage the other day.
I've got 2 spare sets of SPD cleats + bolts you can "farm for parts" to use the new phrase
This is absolutely bizarre. I've been clumping around at work in my bike shoes today and just now walking along the corridor noticed a clicking sound coming from my right foot. "Hello, that sounds strange," I said. Tap-tap-tap...clunk! and the cleat fell off my shoe. I didn't realise that the mud from a bike ride a month ago was actually structural. The bolts themselves have vanished.
I have several spare bolts at home to reattach things, but now have to see if I can manage to ride home with one bolt per shoe! I was planning to move the cleats back a little anyway but hadn't planned it quite like this.
You can probably clip in and ride but I really wouldn't like to try unclipping quickly with a singly-bolted cleat...
Don't do it. When I first got my clipless pedals I lost a bolt from my shoe and I found I was not able to unclip at all as the cleat just twisted. Put two into one shoe and ride the other without a cleat.
Don't do it.
Well, I did do it. Actually I must have lost one of the bolts this morning or even before that and not noticed, but I did find the other bolt - lying almost where the cleat fell off. So I cranked it down tight and cycled homewards, managing to avoid unclipping that foot at all until I was home again. Whereupon it released just fine. So I got away with it once, but I'm about to fix it!
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