Which Shoe Plates for Shimano PD-1056 Pedals?

Question:
I recently got an older specialized road bike. It came with shimano pd-1056 pedals. Would like to buy some road shoes, but am confused on what shoes/clips are compatible with my pedals. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Michael,

This quite an easy question to answer, but you may have a problem getting the correct plates. The Shimano PD-1056 pedals were manufactures under license from LOOK and they made a grey colored shoe plate to go with the pedals. These shoe plate are now probably impossible to find. The good news is that you can use LOOK shoe plates, the black one should work better than the red as they are more like the grey Shimano/LOOK plates.

Now this is where it starts to get complicated, you need to find the old LOOK plates, not the plates fro the new LOOK KEO pedals as they are smaller I size and will nit work. The old LOOK plates are still available, but you might have to search around to find them as LOOK seem to be fazing them out in favor of the new KEO.

Also with your Shimano PD-1056 pedals you will have noticed that at the back of the pedal there is an adjustment of either S or M, these are for the release of your shoe, the S means a single release mode and the M is for a multi-release setting, the M setting allows you to be able to click your foot out of the pedal either away from the bike or twisting it in wards, you need a screw driver to make the adjustment, but its worth the bother for ease of escape.

The shoes you need will have to be LOOK compatible with the three bolt holes set in a triangle on the sole, most modern cycling shoes that are available will take LOOK shoe plates, so you shouldn't have any problem buying the correct shoes. Good luck with the "new" bike and those pedals where probably the best Shimano produced, they should never have stopped making them!