I'm trying to swap the SPD cleats from one pair of shoes to another, and one of the screws is so battered that I can't get the allen key to stick, and consequently can't unscrew it. Is there any obvious solution? I am increasingly impatient to try out my new shoes!

you might have to:

drill it out.
hammer a larger allen key or some sort of tool into it to get it to turn.
take the other bolt/s out and see if you can loosen it by turning the cleat (with pliers or something)

try wacking the allen key in with a hammer, try one size smaller, or cut a line stright across the screw with a hack saw and use a screw driver, or cut tow sides flat and use a pair of pliers. or buy new cleats as its probably time if you cant unscrew them.

Oh arse, I don't have any of those tools. And of course this would happen just as all the useful shops are closing for the day.

But thanks for the tips!

Drill it or cut a slot for a flat head screwy. Its easier and faster to cut a slot... for sure

where do you live, people will have them. or if your coming to cm i will bring a saw and a flat head.

Just threw up my hands in despair and nipped out to the local garage. It took two men ten minutes to loosen the screw (eventually they hammered in a slightly larger allen key), but it's now out - and that means I'll be wearing these tonight!



But thanks for all the offers. I'll buy you a drink anyway if I see you at CM. (And if I make it to CM.)

saucy SIDIs

are these the SIDI seconds, with the SIDI printed backwards?

I'd like to think that you're naked apart from the footwear.

I don't normally go in for crass posts of a vaguely erotic nature, and I've never been a foot or shoe fetishist, but the concept of naked women in Sidis, something that only crossed my mind after seeing the photo, is making me want to do sex and stuff.

you've been on the stuff, haven't you Bring?

Who needs to be on the stuff when you're off the peg?

you were doing so well until you fell off the peg...

perhaps a new business venture :

www.chicks-in-sidis.com

to pick up where the Assos catalogue models left off.

That Assos aesthetic doesn't do it for me. Emilia's photo is infinitely more alluring. A pair of bibshorts being awkwardly twanged across some Alpine nipples is akin to pathetic 80s sports car calendars.

perhaps so, sir, but i'd be lying if i said it didn't give me a slight lurch in the lycra

You sick fuck.

You Fuck Sick.

My 4000th post, and I'm debating the superiority of sophisticated and yet grittily realistic naked women in Sidis erotica versus Swiss adolescent page 3 lycra porn...

+ 1 , that calf/foot/sidi combo is hot.

Oh bother - why do I always get myself into these pickles? I'd just like to confirm that I'm wearing a burqa in the photo, and it's not really my foot, and I'm not really a girl. And you're all sick fucks.

I'll just wear SIDIs.. that'll put you lot off that fantasy quick smart!

ladies in burqas & sidis are super-hot.

hahaha

what did you expect?

Actually, I've though about this in the cold light of day, and all of the above comments are completely inappropriate. It's like when someone posts a pic of Victoria Pendleton and everyone starts going on about how they do/don't find her sexy. It's a woman on a bike for fuck's sake - where is it written that that has anything to do with sex? And this is a photo of my foot. My FOOT! You can see a bit of ankle, but I don't think that's been considered particularly risque for the past 100 years or so. If I'd posted something involving cleavage or buttocks, or perhaps actual nudity, then fair enough - eroticize me all you like. I'd be asking for it. But can't I even show you my foot without it being sexualized?

I am pissed off, to put it mildly. All the effort and energy I put into my cycling, and my career, and being a nice person, and I still ultimately get judged on my sex appeal (something I don't put any effort into at all).

And don't bother accusing me of being a humourless feminist or anything like that. Yes, I'm a feminist, and yes I have a pretty good sense of humour, but this just isn't funny, and I'm fed up of trying to laugh off sexism when it actually upsets me.

I don't think there was anything insidious about my post. I was honest enough to voice something about how my sexual proclivities operate, something that was new to me, and bike related to boot (pun intended).

If you thought it was puerile or vulgar, I fully respect your entitlement to find it so, but it was in no way intended to be disrespectful or intimidating.

I'm a fairly politicised individual, and like you, I like to be judged on things like my intellect or creativity or sporting prowess or whatever, but I've never had a problem when people have fixated on my eyes, or more typically, my bottom. I don't want people touching it uninvited, but complements are more than welcome.

And the picture of your foot was essentially a catalyst for my own fantasised imagery. I can't help being a sexualised entity - it's in my DNA.

we are just sex crazed animals masked by societies mores

they are just a pair of sidis, not exactly a pair of fuck-me boots you sick fuck.

can see how emilia could take your post the wrong way bmmf after all the bollocks which gets posted here about pendleton etc. (not blaming you tho btw)

I'm sure I was as embarrassed as you (and Emilia) were about all that sniggering VP banter.

Unfortunately I have a history of offending people with my honesty, especially as I'm quite impulsive when it comes to vocalising my idiosyncratic cognitive and emotional processes :S

Sorry, was just joining in for a laff..

But in honesty, no-one can prevent themself from being sexualised. We are all human and first and foremost look at someones appearance as physcophysiological matter of course (yes I make up words!) and no matter what other polite things such as intelligent conversation are being projected, there is sexualisation, and other thoughts based on instinctive impulses going on in our heads. Be them looking down on someone for being a dirty crustie or getting 'all excited' inside and having filthy thoughts.

We all tend to be pretty open and/or exaggerate things here, as its a lot more fun and only 'teh internet after all.

Looking at your Sidis, Emilia, makes me realise that I need a new pair. Think I might as well try and get through the winter on the pair that I have though. New pair for spring and the Tour of Ireland. I had the same problem with a screw recently but was able to get is sorted at Holdsworths in Putney on my way home from RP. Did it for free. Bought an extra pair of spare cleats as a way of thanking them.

apologies Emilia, i just thought the angle of your foot in the pic was kind of ( intentionally) ironically coquettish.
or something.

Cliveo

velouk do the sidi's for £120 but we get an additional forum discount of 10%, so by far the cheapest place to buy them

No offense Em but you hold your foot like a noncey ballerina man loving lady boy. don't worry about it though, i am sure there are moments in your life where that dexterity comes in handy.