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Hey Chaps,
I've been spinning around on the XC bike on fireroads, and I just find the pedal height feels weirdly perched compared to flats I run in other bikes.
Does anyone make a clipless that's a little lower profile?
I'm using Time MX pedals at the moment, which are awesome, but just a little high!
Cheers
Ricks
I had to google but that was a dead end, one site claimed time were the tallest (but didn't give a number) and CB the shortest (~15mm) with everyone else much of a muchness in between arroun 17mm. Another site gave a figure of 10mm, but maybe that ignores the cleat.
Are you sure it's actually higher than a flat pedal? IME they feel a bit perched because you're not stood on a big platform, and there's less squish and friction dampening it, but you get used to it.
After years of being convinced that everything must be better than Shimano because everything else is marketed as having better mud clearance, more float, lighter weight etc. I tried a set of Shimano and immediately swapped all my bikes. No more vague 'float' where you never quite know where the engagement is, they just rotate, hit the spring, click and your foots out. And the steel cleats last pretty much indefinitely compared to the brass ones everyone else uses.
Stack height was never soemthing I noticed. But this table ( https://www.cyclecycle.info/pedal-stack-heights) implies that the ritchey SPD copies are the lowest.
Is it also because you may have the cleats in a position (i.e. forward) which makes you feel more 'on your toes' than you would on flats? If so, you could try moving the cleats further back.
Am I the only person who rides flats with my feet in the same position? I.e. with the wide load bearing solid bit of my foot over the axle like with clip less?
Not me obviously, but that doesn't look like the axle is any further back than it would be on a set of SPD shoes.
I ride flats with my foot centred.