|   time alum. creaking with riding shoes? | Gregg S
Oct 4, 2002 4:24 PM | | have a new pair of times and can't stop them from creaking. they are rubbing the bottom of the shoes. any solutions for a fix? these things are driving me crazy. |
| re: time alum. creaking with riding shoes? | teamsloppy
Oct 4, 2002 7:23 PM | | Make sure there is no grease on the pedal or shoe. I dropped a blob of grease on one ATAC (the left). I thought it was no big deal and would only help. It squeaked everday I rode it for a month; the right pedal never squeaked. I took 409 cleaner to the pedal and shoe bottom. Squeak gone.
By riding shoe, I hope you don't mean a "road shoe". The ATAC are designed for the lugs on the sole of an MTB shoe to touch the pedal body while the spring of the pedal contacts the recessed sole plate. If you are using a flat bottomed "road shoe", you will need "pontoons" to fill the gap between the spring/sole contact surface and the pedal body (Northwave even points this out in the SPD adapter plate drawing for their road shoes). Performance used to make an SPD cleat for road shoes with the "pontoons" for their shoes. Some performance bike shops have these in a box under the counter that they will give away (my local Performance bike shop did). |
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