Best way to replicate cleat position on new shoe?

[AngryScientist]

I'm trying a different set of shoes this season, and I would like to get the cleat in as close to the same position as my other road shoes as possible.

Any tips or tricks?

These are three hole road shoes with SPD-SL cleats.

[Likes2ridefar]

I put the shoe on and mark my outer foot bone on the widest on each side of the shoe with a pen or marker and then cross lines using the points on the under side of the shoe…mark again center of shoe and use that for a basis.

[deluz]

I just did this with my wife's new Sidi's.
Just eyeball it first.
Then click old shoe into the pedal and push the heel all the way towards the crank.
Measure the distance from the crank to the side of the heel cup on the shoe.
Put the new shoe in adjust to get the same crank to heel cup clearance.

Good luck

[Seamus]

Probably overpriced for a piece of plastic, but this is a nice tool to have:

https://www.ergonbike.com/en/product...kefitting#info

You could put new and old shoes side by side and compare alignment against the grid pattern.

They make SPD/Look/etc as well.

[carpediemracing]

Get something with a lip/shelf. I'm talking like a shoe box (okay, an Amazon box), where you can put the cleat on the edge of the box, with the bottom of the shoe on the top of the box. You're using the rear edge of the cleat as reference. Mark where the heel is. It's sort of like the tool above, but homemade. Then put the new shoe on, replicate the angle.

You'll need a reference for where the cleat is on the edge, like a cut out or something, so the cleat ends up in the same spot.

This is assuming the shoe fits the same, like if you're putting cleats on a newer shoe that has the same fit (like older Sidis and newer Sidis). If they have major differences then the fore-aft will be off. The angle should be similar though.

[Ozz]

The guy who did my fitting last spring told me that placing my cleats was easy....all the way forward, and all the in.

[Likes2ridefar]

Originally Posted by Ozz

The guy who did my fitting last spring told me that placing my cleats was easy....all the way forward, and all the in.

If anything I’d do the opposite with my foot,,,I’m safer slamming the cleat all the way to the rear…

[Ozz]

Originally Posted by Likes2ridefar

If anything I’d do the opposite with my foot,,,I’m safer slamming the cleat all the way to the rear…

doh...you are right...shoe forward, cleat back.

[jkbrwn]

Originally Posted by Ozz

doh...you are right...shoe forward, cleat back.

Ha, I was about to say 'I'd visit a new fitter' until I read this

[lavi]

Pencil. Trace old cleat position before removing.

[jkbrwn]

Not sure how that works with a new pair of different shoes?

[Likes2ridefar]

Originally Posted by jkbrwn

Not sure how that works with a new pair of different shoes?

It doesn’t. It is great for the same shoe though and same technique I use

[davidb]

I purchased the Neatcleats alignment tool. Having tried it a few times. It works. really well. At the least, it gets the cleats close enough that any other adjustments have been minor. Check it out.

https://neatcleats.cc/products/neatcleats-align-1

[lavi]

Originally Posted by jkbrwn

Not sure how that works with a new pair of different shoes?

Lol. Too true. Apparently my reading comprehension isn't working today. It's sunny in PDX, so I'm all discombobulated.

[AngryScientist]

Thanks guys. I just did a combination of some of the above things and am probably pretty close.