Scrunching toes up
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some thoughts on this please gang.
SPD540SLs, with Specialised shoes, yellow cleats, lowest setting on the pedals. All been good and well, until about a fortnight ago when I started getting an ache along the outside of my right foot after 10 miles or so. Not especially painful, but often enough to unstrap shoe and remove foot for a minute.
It's taken me a while to discover what's happening - but eventually noticed this evening that I'm tending to scrunch my toes up on my right foot, which presumably is forcing me to apply pressure on the outside of my foot, rather than evenly across the ball. Oddly I'm not doing it with my left foot.
Any ideas why I'd be doing this? Saddle too high? Shoe too narrow on right foot? Cleat angle wrong?
Lacking the correct allen key to adjust the cleat and tension, I spent the rest of the ride conciously not doing it, but as soon as I concentrated on something else I started doing it again.
SPD540SLs, with Specialised shoes, yellow cleats, lowest setting on the pedals. All been good and well, until about a fortnight ago when I started getting an ache along the outside of my right foot after 10 miles or so. Not especially painful, but often enough to unstrap shoe and remove foot for a minute.
It's taken me a while to discover what's happening - but eventually noticed this evening that I'm tending to scrunch my toes up on my right foot, which presumably is forcing me to apply pressure on the outside of my foot, rather than evenly across the ball. Oddly I'm not doing it with my left foot.
Any ideas why I'd be doing this? Saddle too high? Shoe too narrow on right foot? Cleat angle wrong?
Lacking the correct allen key to adjust the cleat and tension, I spent the rest of the ride conciously not doing it, but as soon as I concentrated on something else I started doing it again.
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Have you had clipless for long?
I did the same thing when I first got them. I put it down to being a bit nervous on them , and involuntarily trying to "grip" the pedals with my toes.
Right foot only? Is that your dominant side?
I had to force myself to relax my toes, now no problem.
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As above, i also found that tighting the front toe strap a little tighter kept me from doing this.A feather is kinky, a whole chicken is just perverse.0
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lol I did/do exactly the same, feel like a bird on a perch. Mine stemmed from using std pedals and flimsy trainers, still find myself doing it somtimes even now with SPD-SL's! only the soles have no give so really uncomfortable, which is a good thing 'cause I notice I a mdoing it quicker :-)0
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Specialized shoes are quite wide so unless you have exceptionally wide feet I wouldn't have thought its the shoes.0
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+1 for tightening the toe end strap. You shouldn't be able to move your feet off the sole of the shoe -I found I scrunched my toes up to stop this and then got smaller shoes and the toe scrunching stopped.0
