Spd cleat in pedal - how do I get it out

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Needless to say, the cleat is not attached to my shoe, and it was a longer ride home.

The bolts attaching the cleat to my shoe apparently were loose. Lesson learned.

Now the cleat is still in the pedal. I tried levering it out with a screwdriver, but I can’t really place or replicate the motion or the force when you are doing it naturally with your foot. So how do I get it out.

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Use a big wrench to twist it out?

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Might want to loosen the tension on the cleat first to make it easier. It is the little allen screw adjacent to the cleat. From there I am thinking long nose pliers to get a grip and twist it.

Good luck!

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Can you drill a screw or two through the cleat into a piece of wood, then twist it out?

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Ride backwards and see if it will do itself back up?

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Might want to loosen the tension on the cleat first to make it easier. It is the little allen screw adjacent to the cleat. From there I am thinking long nose pliers to get a grip and twist it.

Good luck!
This is how you do it.

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Put a couple of screws into a piece of wood, the same distance apart as the cleat screws. Put the block face down on top of the pedal so the screws are sitting in the screw recess in the cleats, then stand on top of the wood while twisting sideways

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Put a couple of screws into a piece of wood, the same distance apart as the cleat screws. Put the block face down on top of the pedal so the screws are sitting in the screw recess in the cleats, then stand on top of the wood while twisting sideways

Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines. Make yourself a custom pin wrench or inverse pin wrench depending on whether or not the screws are still extending vertically out of the stuck cleat. Do this with something like a two or three foot long 2x4 and stand on it if you need pressure to keep in engaged or just twist it with your hand if the pin connections are solid enough without standing on it. If the cleat mounting bolts are still extending partially out of the cleat you may need to build this out of a piece of aluminum block to be strong enough to not rip out the pair of holes as you twist your home made wrench.

If there’s a bunch of existing mounting screw thread sticking up you might be fine with a big pair of parallel jaw vice grips to grab the exposed screws.

Good luck,
-Dave