Shoes for Clipless Pedals

Ritchie Velasco has an easy question to answer all to do with clipless pedals. He needs to know is if all road cycling shoes will fit all clipless pedals? We describe what he needs to look for in a shoe to fit his clipless pedal shoe plates

Question:
does any road cycling shoe fit any clipless pedal? No specifics?

Hi Ritchie,

The answer is; yes, well, just about all “proper” cycling shoes will take the shoe plate for clipless pedals. If the shoe has the three bolt holes for LOOK style shoe plates then that’s most pedals covered. Then if there are the two adjustable central bolt holes then that’s just about all the others taken care of.

Mountain bike shoes usually only have the central bolt holes, so you can’t fit the LOOK style three bolt shoe plates. If you find shoes with all the bolt holes you can’t go wrong.

The Sole

LOOK Style