Comments on: Shimano Click’R Pedals – less is much more

By: David Halfpenny

David Halfpenny — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:58:22 +0000

Thanks for following up Alistair. I agree about the shoes. You should try the pedals, they’ll blow your mind.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:31:43 +0000

Just to confirm that everything fitted OK with standard SPD pedals. These shoes are great!

By: David Halfpenny

David Halfpenny — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:32:28 +0000

I asked the same question and was told by the Shimano Sales Manager that you can use Click’R shoes with standard SPD pedals. The M520s are pretty close to the Click’R pedals anyway, so I don’t think there will be a problem.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:58:02 +0000

Hi, just bought these SH-CT40 shoes and am concerned that in the technical service instructions that came in the box, it states “These SPD shoes cannot be used with SPD/SPD-R/SPD-SL pedals for road riding”. I planned to use them with Shimano M520 pedals on a hybrid bike. Have I screwed up?

By: kukamunga

kukamunga — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:32:33 +0000

Shimano rate the sole stiffness of their Click’R shoes at 3 on a scale where their stiffest, lightest carbon road sole is a 12. Their Touring, Trekking and entry level MTB shoes are 5, entry level road shoes – 6. I guess flip-flops / thongs would rate a big, fat 0

My SPD sandals that I love wearing in these warmer months are 4 on the ‘Shimano Sole Stiffness Scale’. I’m not a sneaker wearer – I am used to ‘work shoes’ – and I find 5-6 soled SPD shoes reasonably comfortable to wear all day

By: David Halfpenny

David Halfpenny — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:15:51 +0000

Good idea. Tighten them a little at a time until you don’t clip out accidentally anymore. My left foot used to roll out until I tightened it, but never my right.

By: jesseb05

jesseb05 — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:21:30 +0000

I purchased my first road bike on the weekend and chose to have this model of Shimano Click’R Pedals installed. It’s been smooth sailing so far and I find them very easy to get in/out of. I think I may need to tighten them a little though because my feet have come loose a couple of time while riding.

By: David Halfpenny

David Halfpenny — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:48:13 +0000

They can be, and I did a few times when I took the lift downstairs, sans cleated shoes, and couldn’t be bothered going back up to the office again. This meant two trips each time (from and to work) on bare pedals. You don’t feel the cage and mechanism much when you’ve got normal shoes on, but they don’t offer the sort of grip that I would want on flat pedals. My older commuting pedals, and my touring bike pedals, are basically BMX/downhill type pedals with the little spikes in them and toeclips attached. They’re wonderfully grippy, even without the toeclips.

I wouldn’t be buying these for long term riding without the cleats (go for the BMX pedals), but for short trips or “I forgot” situations, they’re perfectly good. This gives them a bit of an advantage over the plain spd or spd-sl pedals.

By: Uzi

Uzi — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:03:02 +0000

Can these pedals be used with normal non-cleated shoes such as sneakers? Or would the pedal protrude into the soles of a normal shoe?

By: David Halfpenny

David Halfpenny — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:51:10 +0000

OK, here are some pics of the sole. Let me know if you want more. Starting from the toe to the heel, the first segment you can see is quite flexible, the segment just above the cleat well to just after the cleat well is very stiff. The part of the shoe under the arch of your foot is about half as flexible as the toe, then the heel segment is again very stiff. They're a lot more flexible than my racing shoes with the carbon soles (which don't really flex at all) and a lot less flexible than my Dunlop Volleys, which I all but live in. I don't notice any stiffness while moving and I often only notice that I didn't change shoes at work when I hit the gravel path between buildings and I can hear the cleat hitting the stones. Obviously, these are the soles of the model I'm wearing, but there are other types of click'R shoes and their soles probably vary.