Finally found a use for my bottle holder holes yesterday

ricardo_smooth

Spare cleat bolt storers was caught out yesterday when riding skiddaw, went to unclip and the cleat was just spinning under my foot as i'd lost a bolt! made the descent down quite fun knowing I had to nail it or crash spectacularly with one foot still attached to the bike

ilovedirt

That's actually a really good idea!

stubs

Got a couple of spare disc rotor bolts in mine.

cooldad

ilovedirt wrote:

That's actually a really good idea!

Rubbish idea if you don't ride SPD's though.

ricardo_smooth

And only half a good idea if you switch between flats and spd's like me!

bennett_346

cooldad wrote:

ilovedirt wrote:

That's actually a really good idea!

Rubbish idea if you don't ride SPD's though.

Flats are ghey

cooldad

bennett_346 wrote:

cooldad wrote:

ilovedirt wrote:

That's actually a really good idea!

Rubbish idea if you don't ride SPD's though.

Flats are ghey

Unlike you, I don't have an intimate relationship with my pedals.

miss notax

ricardo_smooth wrote:

Spare cleat bolt storers was caught out yesterday when riding skiddaw, went to unclip and the cleat was just spinning under my foot as i'd lost a bolt! made the descent down quite fun knowing I had to nail it or crash spectacularly with one foot still attached to the bike

Bizarrely the same thing happened to me at Brechfa a few weeks ago :shock:

I ended up stealing a bolt from Notax's rotor so I could unclip if I needed to - and since then have started carrying spares!!

allthegearnoidea

i got a bag of 20 cleat bolts form ebay for a coupl eof quid and carry a couple of pairs with me just incase!! ive not had to use any fortunately (touch wood!!) but a couple of guys have lost one when weve been out!!

Chunkers1980

I didn't even know this cleat problem existed.

I've been running SPDs for nearly 20 years and never had one come out. I've cracked the sole and it's pulled out with backing plate on.

Perhaps tighten them a lot more.

bluechair84

A great idea... I was thinking I could carry a spare of two different bolts... but I've never lost a single bolt. I'm going to have a look and see what else fits

stubs

Chunkers1980 wrote:

I didn't even know this cleat problem existed.

I've been running SPDs for nearly 20 years and never had one come out. I've cracked the sole and it's pulled out with backing plate on.

Perhaps tighten them a lot more.

Dont go mad tightening them I managed to split a cleat nut plate and I wasnt even swinging on the allen key.

ringwoodlights

Never lost a cleat bolt but a couple of years ago I was in Mexico doing a charity cycle ride and about 100miles in to the 500mile trip someone tapped me on the shoulder and asked "is this yours?" it was the buckle of my race shoe! Would have made for an interesting trip with only one shoe! :oops: