Cleats freezing..

fallingoff

Apologies if this is in the wrong section..
It's mainly aimed at "new" cleat users.
I went out today and I found that my cleats kept freezing to my pedals,so I was snapping them out every mile or so,I was on my mountian bike on a snow covered cinder path.
I did go ,out at a"silly" time mind just as it was starting to freeze (2;45 p.m)..I could see the roads glistening as they were freezing.
It's not as bad on the road but it's something to be wary of...

Pokerface

Never heard of cleats freezing before! Maybe spray some GT85 (or something similar) on them before going out?

And this post could go in the MTB section if you're riding a mountain bike. Road cleats are plastic so don't usually freeze!

furrag

About 7 of us went mountain biking two weeks ago in the last snowfall, and they all had the same problems with cleats. It seemed the answer was to stamp their foot on the pedal before clipping in. That said, they were unclipping every 5 minutes or so.

Buckled_Rims

My SPD pedals and cleats block up with snow and freeze. I think it's because they're made of metal and that conducts the cold making it easier for freeze water on the said items.

Never had a problem with road shoes and cleats (SPD-SL) because of their plastic nature.

A small spray of anti-freeze could always be carried. The small tins you get for your car door locks are ideal.

Lady Venom

Vaseline.

fallingoff

Pokerface wrote:

And this post could go in the MTB section if you're riding a mountain bike. Road cleats are plastic so don't usually freeze!

I was on my MTB but I use MTB cleats on both road and mtb,hence the post.

AndyF16

Mine always get a squirt of GT85 when I wash the bike, but yesterday for the first time I managed to unclip involuntarily a few times - my initial thought was the mechanism on the pedals (A530 single sided) needed tightening up a notch, but maybe it was the -4oC for 2 hours causing it?

Giant Phil

AndyF16 wrote:

Mine always get a squirt of GT85 when I wash the bike, but yesterday for the first time I managed to unclip involuntarily a few times - my initial thought was the mechanism on the pedals (A530 single sided) needed tightening up a notch, but maybe it was the -4oC for 2 hours causing it?

Have same peds, after I WD40 them, unclipping becomes drastically easier, once it burns off, It'll tighten up again.

Phil

AndyF16

Giant Phil wrote:

Have same peds, after I WD40 them, unclipping becomes drastically easier, once it burns off, It'll tighten up again.

Phil

Cheers for the info, my first thought was am I just getting used to them on the 'slackest' setting, or becoming so powerful they couldn't handle the huge torque I was putting through them :roll: I won't bother putting an allen key to them yet then!