BikeFit Cleat Wedges

OMG! I have been feeling like my right bike shoe is too big for my foot. It feels like my foot is swimming in my shoe, but the left feels fine. Well turns out my right foot leans out to the right BIG TIME, so my foot was having to come down quite a bit on the inner left side to compensate to push the pedal down. Someone posted these in the big Peloton group and it's exactly what I needed! I increased my output by 30 watts and my average went from 80ish to over 100 watts!! It's incredible!! And I'm not totally exhausted! I was working so hard trying to make up for lost effort due to the gap in my foot. These wedges help so much. And my inner knee pain is gone.

The idea is great, I've used the same product with great results on a couple different road bike setups, but it hasn't worked quite as well in my mountain bike SPD setups.The problem lies simply with the design of most SPD pedals, for the most part there is not much contact (if any) between the bottom of the cleat (which is now angled from the shims) and the pedal body itself. Typically the cleat is held by 1-2 retention spring bars and the shoe itself makes contact with the pedal. Most of the platform contact with SPD pedals is between the pedal body and either the bottom of the shoe sole under the cleat, or the tread on the shoe. Which is the complete opposite of most road bike pedals where the cleat is 100% of the contact between the shoe and the pedal. I've tried them with both Time ATAC and shimano SPD's and in both cases the issue was that my shoe tread was hitting the larger pedal body and not allowing the shims to impact the foot angle.With some SPD pedals even if you cut the shoe tread away you'd still have issues, take for example Time ATAC's or Eggbeaters. Since the cleat is only held in by two spring bars, those bars typically rest on the bottom of the shoe once the cleat is engaged. Here again, since the pedal is in contact with the bottom of the shoe and not the cleat it cancels out the shim angle.I haven't tried it yet, but probably the only solution for most SPD setups is either to use shims/wedges in the shoe to angle the foot inside the shoe, or to grind the shoe tread on one side of the shoe to try and mimic what the shims are trying to accomplish.Again I'm sure with some shoe/pedal setups these probably work similar as they do in road bike pedal setups, but for me with SIDI shoes and either time atac's or shimano SPD's I didn't notice any difference from having flat cleats. Where in my road bike setups with the same amount of shimming I notice a huge difference.

My genetic roll of the dice gave me a lower anatomy that puts me on my feet's little toe edges naturally. My snow skiing equipment has been canted to flatten my skis for many years and despite that, I've only recently tried cleat wedges in my cycling shoes. What a great difference it makes, knees hips and lower back all are much happier, especially on longer rides. Stand-up efforts now feel more powerful with my foot delivery square power, rather than angled/oblique through the outside of my feet. I would suggest starting small, one shim at a time. You may not need more than one of them to feel a significant difference. I have 2 on one foot, and 1 on the other. 1 and 1 fixed only one of the 2 feet, 2 and 1 did the trick. Great little fix.

Works good with my SPD-SL. Important to make sure the the nose of the wedge does not extend beyond the nose of the cleat so it doe not bunch up when clipping in. (since you clip in nose first)... It is ok if the wedge protrudes on the side and back. No need to trim these. I remember when these first came out (about 15 years ago) and marketed as Big Meat (this is still stamped on the wedges) with Marty Nothstein as the spokes model. Since this is an old product the screws are not allen but phillips which was the standard back then on cleats. I had been using Specialized Body Geometry shoes which has the angle built into the shoe platform... After switching to another shoe, that does not have this angle, I could feel the difference which led me to buying these wedges to give me that needed alignment.

Feedback is directed to SpeedPlay (Cleat Wedge)Pro:In compliance its purpose. With that aligns your knees +++++ hight Recommended +++++Cons:1- Value $ Very High.2- Screws do not work when more than 2 (Cleat Wedges).3- Screws are not quality.4- They should bring more screws (different length)Other thoughts:I leave 3 star without screws can not be mounted (very short 14mm) I need screws 17mm hard to obtain) screws had to look elsewhere (3 hours of my time)But despite all I highly recommend +++++But you have to look screws 2 to 4 mm longer-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Leave photos as references (they are hard to find on the internet)