Newbie road rider

OwenB

Hi, I've been riding my MTB for a while now, but am finding it tough to get out off road very often and as such when I found an old roadie in my girlfriends garage I decided to fix it up and use it as a training tool.
Anyway the bike seems pretty sorted, it's an old(ish) Dawes Genesis, everything appears to be in order except tyres and chain which I've got to fit on Saturday.
I've got enough cycling clothing to get me started, however on my MTB I use flat pedals and I've been told I'd be best to go clipless on a roadie, so I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a reasonably priced shoe and pedal combo that will be suitable for a novice.

Thanks in advance

Owen.

softlad

I would try using some cheap off road SPD pedals and shoes to start. Any reason why you're still using flats on an MTB..?

kilo

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/dhb_R ... 360033177/

&

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/productde ... HIMPEDA800

Rhods

The Shimano M520 spd comes up often in pedal threads - a double sided spd pedal and the cheapest way to find out if it suit you or not. A quick search on google will bring it up for under £20 from many online stores.

Not got a lot of info on shoes, but i know that the DHB range from wiggle are reasonably priced and ahve had good reviews. Mail order only though.

OwenB

Cheers will check them out. As for wearing flats on the mountain bike, I'm not very good to be honest and I like the comfort of being able to dab my feet when I need to.

carl_p

+ 1 for DHB road shoe. Excellent value for money.

OwenB

With regards to the DHB shoes, are they close fitting? In some shoes I can be a size 10, others 11, but I don't have particularly wide fitting feet, would it be a wise choice to go for a bigger size initially?

softlad

buying shoes mail order is always going to be a bit 'hit n miss' - but if it helps, my regular shoe size is 42, but I have always had cycle shoes in 43. not sure if that's useful or not...

pud77

As a first set I've recently bought:

Shimano MT31 £29.99
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=18376

Shimano M520 £19.95 (I paid £2 less on special offer)
http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/?fn=produ ... egoryId=81

Working brilliant for me, and cannot complain at the price

feel

Shimano A530 and A520 also worth a look. The A530 could end up on your MTB. Look on ebay for them.

Gav888

Im a novice and just bought myself some Shimano R086 shoes with Shimano 105 pedals. Pedals are lovely, shoes are on back order :evil:

All in £90.

Gav888

Im a novice and just bought myself some Shimano R086 shoes with Shimano 105 pedals. Pedals are lovely, shoes are on back order :evil:

All in £90.

keef66

Lidl are said to be getting in some cycling gear including shoes soon

redddraggon

If I had my time over again, my first "clipless system" would have been an MTB one.

Would have made walking up some of the hills easier

fooshnicken

I'm using some SPD 520's on both my mountain bike and my road bike.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/Shima ... 360008792/

I have two sets of shoes for riding with, these are what I use;

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/North ... 360028008/

and these in the winter

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/nor ... s-ec011689