Hey everyone and welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video we're going to be reviewing the flats and BMX pedal
So the Ezra flats
BMX pedal this is a little bit different than what I normally do for a Tuesday tip and trick
but Robbie Taylor and the folks over at Eastern were nice enough to send a set of these pedals out for me to do a
Review on so that's what we're gonna do today
And when it comes to BMX pedals and doing a review on them, obviously
I've never done one before so I set up a little bit of criteria
On how to judge these the first thing is appearance
then we've got
durability and then last we've gotten the feel and the grip and I would say that the appearance is something that is of
Arguable importance when it comes to a BMX pedal
But I would definitely say that most BMX riders would rather have a pedal that feels and grips great
But doesn't last very long than they would a pedal that lasts forever but feels terrible and doesn't grip very well
so let's talk about
Appearance in my opinion these pedals look pretty good
They are extremely slim and they have a pretty decent sized
Platform on them and the absence of a place for a pedal wrench on the spindle looks very clean when installed on the bike
Even though it makes them a little bit harder to get tight enough
Because you can't use a pedal wrench to tighten them. Other than that
And since this is a review I should mention that these pedals look
Exactly the same as a set of diety pedals that I saw for sale at raze
However, the deity pedals cost fifty dollars. Whereas the Ezra flats pedals cost
35 dollars now, let's talk about durability. I'll start out by saying that I have thoroughly
completely utterly and absolutely
beaten the crap out of these pedals
Only to have them look like they're just a couple weeks old and haven't really been ridden that much
and at first I was a little bit worried about breaking them pretty quickly or just destroying the pins because
I personally haven't had good luck with plastic pedals in the past, but these have been a pleasant surprise
honestly the pins in them have lasted as
Well as they have I mean you're seeing it on screen right now. I have beaten the crap out of these pedals
they've held up to many different lucky and petal stall variations sometimes dropping into them very hard every
Single time I've ridden and at this point I've had them on my bike now for several months
Punishing them to the point that I can say without a shadow of a doubt that these pedals are pretty darn
Durable now, let's talk about the feel and the grip of these pedals
Obviously with pins like the ones that are on these pedals they're going to grip very well, and I didn't really notice
anything as far as the platform goes it was kind of just
Another pedal to me as far as the platform
But after all of these months and peddle stalls in lucky stalls and just beating the crap out of these pedals
like I said
the pins on these pedals are still in great shape and still grip very
well
and you really don't have to have brand new shoes or
Good shoes with these pedals because the pins on them do all of the work
But what I would recommend is that if you're going to ride these pedals
wear
shin guards because even just sitting on the bike and moving around on the bike these things like to grab ahold of your jeans and
Put tiny little holes in them
So I can't imagine
What these would do to a bare shin? And I don't want to see what these would do to a bare shin
So if you get these pedals
Make sure you wear shin guards the good thing about having pedals with
Gnarly pins on them like these is that you never really have to worry about trail Derr affecting your grip on the pedals
Taking your feet off is also extremely
comfortable when you know that when you go to put them back on the
Pedal is gonna grab your shoe and not let go of it
I also never found my foot getting stuck to the pedals going into or coming out of any tricks
Whatsoever in my experience running these pedals
Another aspect of these pedals to mention is that they use sealed bearings
This is something that I didn't notice when I first put them on my bike
But for whatever reason I switched back to my old pedals for a weekend and that was when it became
immediately obvious the difference between these sealed bearing pedals and my old
unsealed bearing pedals
The smoothness is just unmatched and at this point these pedals have converted me
And I don't think that I could ever
Ride pedals without sealed bearings ever again just because of how smooth and how good it feels to ride
With pedals that have sealed bearings in them
So you might have noticed that I haven't really had anything bad to say about these pedals yet. Really?
there's only two maybe three things that I have to say here one of those being
completely my fault and the other being something that most people probably
Won't encounter or have effect to them
So the first thing is that the pedal pins like to come loose on you
Extremely easily and just from riding
this is something that I had to deal with all the time and
Even just right now you can see that these ones are loose right here
We've got a loose one on the other side right here and I always found myself having to tighten the pedal pins
But it's very easy to do if you keep tools on you
this shouldn't be a very hard fix with just a drop of Loctite per pedal pin and a little bit of time put in the
Next thing I want to talk about is that the length of the pins make some tricks a little bit harder on certain?
setups and like I said earlier
This is something that's probably not going to affect very many people but it affected me
So I thought it would be worth putting into the review
and for example
I'm talking about tricks like pedal stalls to rotating out on metal ramps
That was the one that specifically affected me
It just felt like it didn't want to work to do a pedal stall, too
Rotating trick out like a pedal stall 270 fufanu or 270 icepick because the pins are so long
You're not arresting just the pedal on the coping in the top of the ramp
You're resting just a couple pins on the top there
and when you go to rotate out the pins just want to slide on the top of the ramp and not let it work and
You can't really get set solid in order to do the rotation out of the trick
but like I said before this is something that's probably not going to affect very many people and it could be something that's completely
Me or something. I'm doing wrong personally
The last thing is that they won't stay tight
But this is entirely my fault because I put grease on the threads when putting them into my cranks
Thinking that it would prevent them from getting stuck on the cranks and not thinking about the opposite outcome of just them not staying tight
Every single session I have to tighten these things up at least two or three times and it has me regretting ever putting the grease
Onto the threads in the first place and this is definitely something that you're not going to have to deal with if you buy these
Pedals, so that's really it as far as the bad goes with these pedals. I've had an extremely positive
experience with these pedals over the past few months
They've taught me that I'm never going to ride unsealed bearing pedals ever again
And they've gotten me past my hatred for riding plastic pedals on my bike and they've held up
Extremely well much better than I ever thought
Plastic pedals would stand up to my riding the pins on these pedals make them super grippy
despite how dangerous they might be without shin guards or
pants for that matter and the sealed bearings on them make for an extremely
Smooth pedaling experience that like I said several times now has converted me for ever
Really and aside from the minor issues that I had with them as far as the pins loosening themselves, I would
definitely recommend these pedals to someone who predominantly
Rides skate parks and trails it would be great for anyone in those disciplines
And as far as street goes, I would say that these would also work well for most people in the streets
But could affect some because the length of these pedal pins could affect certain tricks
I don't personally do lucky grinds or pedal slides on ledges
So I can't say anything on that personally
But I have heard that some people
File these pins down to make them shorter and that could affect these tricks and make these pedals work great in all
Aspects of BMX for everyone. So overall my experience with the ezra flats pedal, which is only
$35 is an extremely positive one
there is a reason that there's been a brand new set of
metal steel
pedals in my room and not on my bike for the past month and it's because these pedals have just been good enough to
Leave on my bike and I enjoy them
So with that being said that's gonna wrap up the review on these ezra flats pedals
I have a link in the description below to where you can find these pedals if you do want to buy them if you guys
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So with that I want to thank Robbie Taylor Ezra and Eastern for sending these out for me to review
I want to thank you for being here and watching and we'll see you again for another video tomorrow. Goodbye
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