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Hey,
I've got a couple of sets of Time pedals, an MX12 and an XC6. Both are great with my Shimano Am9 shoes, they allow me to move my feet around, but feel pretty planted when I don't want to move them.
With my XC shoes they just feel really loose and like ice skating. Is that just normal with the amount of float they have?
Cheers!
Ricks
It's probably like my crank brothers mallet pedals, feel great with Enduro style or hybrid shoes, terrible with my xc shoes. Possibly because they don't have such a fixed position when you're clipped in like with SPD's, I guess the float is good in some situations but not with xc shoes where you don't rely on pedal shoe interference.
swap the cleats over and it will reduce the float
Blastit has a good point, are the fitted the same way on both set of shoes? They’re Reversible cleat that allows you to choose a step-out angle of 13 or 17°.
As my only experience of what your talking about is with well worn cleats.
It’s probably like my crank brothers mallet pedals, feel great with Enduro style or hybrid shoes, terrible with my xc shoes. Possibly because they don’t have such a fixed position when you’re clipped in like with SPD’s, I guess the float is good in some situations but not with xc shoes where you don’t rely on pedal shoe interference.
I think you're spot on.
Do Shimano SPDs fix that issue? It's been probably 10 years since I ran SPDs!
never noticed any difference between shoes on my time pedals TBH.
Hmmmm... Are you running the cleats straight onto the shoes? Any protector on the sole or anything?
As Rickon says, check your shoe sole for wear marks from the pedals spring bar that makes contact with your sole. Over time they can wear the shoe sole creating excessive float / play between shoe & pedal.
Yes they are like that. Mine feel like that for sure. There is zero float or play in the fore and aft direction and the direct up and down direction, but side to side and rotational float is quite considerable, which is what I like about them. As has been said before you can swap your cleats around to adjust the rotational release angle, but this wont affect the side to side float and that sliding on ice feeling. But be careful because if you swap them round the wrong way then you will change the direction you need to twist to release - so instead of a heal out rotation it will be a heal in rotation. Got a bit of a shock once on the first ride after replacing cleats stopping at a junction and trying to remove my foot in the normal way. Just about managed to get it out before an embarrassing drop to the floor.
Mine certainly feel like that when I use the MTB after a period of just road biking, they're a lot looser. Doesn't seem to make much difference in practice as I don't unclip by accident.