Pedal confusion
This has caused me much confusion and a small amount of grief so I thought I’d share what I know for reference.
My B-Twin Sport 3 bike from Decathlon came with Wellgo road pedals and if you have followed my journey on The Great Tour you’d know I needed new cleats. I naturally started looking in the Internet for Wellgo cleats and the only hits I got were of the Taiwanese manufacturer with little information. There was a suggestion that the Look Delta cleats were compatible but no more than a suggestion. I could have gone to Decathlon but I had perviously looked in store where they have their cleats and saw nothing similar and since I was passing Evans Cycles I felt they would surely be able to answer my queries and sell me some cleats.
I asked the assistant at Evans if he had the appropriate cleats and handed him the Wellgo pedal that I had taken with me. He went away and into the back room before returning and saying that he didn’t have anything and that I should try Halfords (which I thought was a bit of a random suggestion). Since I was getting a bit fed up with what had been a week long search I asked about other options and ended walking out of the shop with a pair of Shimano SPD SL pedals.
I still had a nagging doubt and did some further digging. I finally found the pedal on the Decathlon site (through a Google search not the on site search) which stated Compatible with “Delta” type cleats. If I had seen this before I would have been much more confident to correct the sales assistant in Evans. However if you search for Delta Cleats on the Decathlon site you only get the result of the Wellgo pedal and Look Delta Cleats in red (9ยบ angular float) or black (fixed). The page then states “Compatible with Look Delta pedals”. No mention of any other pedal of some kind of standard compatibility. So if you looked at that cleat, much as I have done on other sites, you wouldn’t have the confidence to buy them even though they do look similar. However I can say that they are the ones to buy.
Its all academic for me as I now have Shimano SPD SL cleats on my shoes but if I can help others.
