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thanks man, I have been using road shoes as opposed to mtb, with the cleats set up so that the pedal axle was roughly underneath the ball of my foot, as per various online sources. I'm pretty sure my feet would have been further forward with the pedals, so the axle would be closer so the middle of my foot, and never had them super tight, so there'd always be some movement back and forth and from side to side.
but I hadn't really considered that, I was thinking it's more likely to be the angle than the position relative to the axle so will have a look, thanks!
alfred_ostwald
i had knee pains with spds ( see a few posts above ), similar to yours. I tried various things but ultimately it was a change to road pedals that did the trick.
It's been 3/4 months now without any issue, but i have thought a lot about what could have been wrong with the spds, and i am pretty convinced that it was the vertical position of my foot on the pedal, not the alignement/angle that was the cause. The spd cleat was too close to the toes whereas my foot sits much more forward on the pedal now.
Maybe the straps you were using allowed for far less movement than spds, or you were used to pushing with a different area of the foot.
Just some personal experience, to highlight the fact that i was looking wrongly at the issue at the start.