recommendations on decent set of clipless peadles & shoes

fguihen

got my road bike and now looking for a decent set of shoes and clipless peadles with cleats.

just got my bike and gear(pumps, helmet, lights, locks etc) so budget is tight. I have maby 150 max for both peadles and shoes ( but would be better if i could spend less!)

Thanks.

Captain Havoc

Where ever you're going try to get them to throw in the cleats.

fguihen

two things :

I thought cleats came with peadles

and

I was going to buy online and avail on the much cheaper prices.

Lumen

I wouldn't buy shoes online unless you like sending stuff back.

These and these would fit your budget.

Captain Havoc

fguihen wrote: »

two things :

I thought cleats came with peadles

and

I was going to buy online and avail on the much cheaper prices.

Maybe, I have my pedals over a year so I can't remember. The thing I don't like about buying shoes online is that you never know how exactly they're going to fit. Sometimes I'm an 8, sometimes 8 and a half and on the rare occasion 9, but I do like my footware to be snug. If you're going to order online, I'd check them out first in a shop but I don't have that facility here in Kilkenny so I end up paying more than they're worth.

blorg

@fguihen- you are right, cleats do come with the pedals not the shoes.

Note if you buy from CRC posting back if necessary is cheaper than if buying from Britain.

petethedrummer

Since I bought my Mountain Bike I've started using the MTB pedals and shoes on the road bike for my commute. You don't have to walk like a penguin in MTB shoes.
These are the SPD pedals I have - http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=3759

I don't find them as easy to clip into as the SPD-SLs (road pedals) but the trade off for being able to walk properly off the bike is worth it.

I'd get shoes in a local shop, easier to get a good fit. but I'm awfully picky about shoe sizing. my shoes were €80 in cycleways, I think they had a pair for 60. But I may be misremembering (if that's a word).

EDIT: Here are the shoes I got, they were mislabelled 80.99 in the shop but they honoured the price tag.....so thats one instance where going local is cheaper.

Captain Havoc

petethedrummer wrote: »

misremembering (if that's a word).

forgetting?

I use the mtb ones for commuting and have them on a loose setting and then LOOK style for the road bike.

72hundred

petethedrummer wrote: »

EDIT: Here are the shoes I got, they were mislabelled 80.99 in the shop but they honoured the price tag.....so thats one instance where going local is cheaper.

OT/

Same thing happened when I got some pannier bags off them last year. If you quote the internet price in shop they usually give it to you.

FWI: I've heard some pretty crazy stuff about their labour costs recently... €20 to change front&back tyres! Incredible.

/OT

tomasrojo

petethedrummer wrote: »

But I may be misremembering (if that's a word).

It was a good enough word for a Nobel Laureate:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/from_lightenings.php

mockler007

did you not ask them to fit clip pedals to your ride when you bought it, i did that, got them free, i use mtb shoes so im not sure if girly shoes would suit me, whatever they say on this do not get pink, it is not salmon its pink