welcome to today's video welcome to the first video back in the UK after our trip to Vietnam
I'm here with James we're in the Beaufort's studio because we're doing a brand new series of bike for
Tuesday's it's been so long yeah a long time we're gonna revisit some of the old material we're gonna
put a new spin on it we're gonna give you guys some more information how I'm gonna bring some
whole whole new list of topics and I'm going to start debunking a few myths that we've we've come
across everything in the industry over the years so without further ado we're going talk about
pedals only why can we got a big drop of pedals over there what we've got here is a selection
of the most common systems that we find in the studio and I guess we're gonna go through and
explain the differences in the benefits certain to have some of the pitfalls of abusing some of the
systems I guess if we kick it off with the guys that invented it look it's a French manufacturer
they make a number of clipless pedals this is the gear to match which actually in my opinion
is this is my favorite look this tends to be the the pedal that I'd sell to people who are lighter
riders smaller women it's the easiest thing to engage it's not quite heavily real weighted so
that tends to make it easier for you to come along and actually clip into the thing and engage with
it a little bit better that's fundamentally it this is the original pedal system the original
clipless pedal system which comes with three different options of floats this is one of the
older versions they've more recently moved to a carbon leaf spring the benefits the
least appearance is lighter it lacks any form of adjustment to the resistance so if you don't fit
they offer several different levels of tension but if you don't like factory set tension there isn't
really any way of deviating from it without removing the leaf spring and replacing with
a different one there are titanium axle versions both of them along with a series of of steel or
stainless steel carbon and plastic bodies next is the time I took actually recently maverick have
bought the rights to this system so the Machpelah is actually exactly the same system as this time
were the very first manufacturer to develop float in pills back in the day when look developed their
sister system they were using a fixed cleat and actually that caused quite a lot of problems for
riders but we'll do video these are really quite popular with a lot of riders because it's quite an
easy system to get in and out of there is however one fundamental flaw with them they have very
little in fact they've got virtually no adjustment for starts so you can't move the paperclip medium
athlete they are just pretty that pretty much set you can reverse them to to alter the stance
but it isn't really sufficient adjustment in my opinion versus the other systems that were
before see today as a bike fitter I find it one of the harder systems to work with it is easier
to use from a consumers perspective but frankly it's easy to use on an almost immeasurable scale
versus the other systems I had to use these for a while and get me to if you ever have a chance
to try on someone's shoe that's the right size and clip-in if you haven't tried one of these I
think you should because it's the weirdest float yeah from a pedal system I've ever used pivots in
two different ways I'm really weird I can't even explain it so if you ever have chance try mark we
then move on to my personally favorite system I spent many years running running looks in fact I
started on Shimano I moved to but moved to looks because I started riding camp out on my bikes new
car you can't have that photo of Ronnie Shimano pedals on I can't think of it by and I recently
moved back to Shimano just before our trip to America I go back to Shimano and frankly wonder
why I've been doing my life SPB SL is without a doubt the most stable system by a long long way
it's a solid pedal it's more it's the most durable system it's also probably the most common system
that you'll see the power I have in my hand here is one of five say carbon-fiber body with chrono
the axles of decent seal bearings they start the off by for tips on knowledge panel I've got to
say the entry-level pedal from from Shimano the Suites actually don't fit the pedal very well so
they tend to have this notion of washing around or excessive flow so if you're gonna buy from
on a pedal and my recommendation would be to start at least for the r550 there's only about
10 pound more maybe I can be as little as five pounds more than they are 540 when you when you
buy them online moving up from there you go to 105 Integra and dura-ace fundamentally the the
engagement system is all exactly the same leaves the same pleats again you've got three different
options of please complete float so the blue clean offers two and a half the yellow cleat
which offers six degrees what you tend to get the pallets packaged in and they also offer the work
of the devil red meat which is a fixed fix float doesn't allow any movement of one of a variety of
this system that really is worth noting is the SP d SL e which is only available in all Tegra
dura-ace versions iterations but this is a long axial version of the standard pedal system now
it's worth noting that the juror race as actually is that just like shorter axle than the other four
pedals so the Jura race the long axle pedal is actually still narrower than the Altai prolong
axle pedal but if you have an individual that has a typical varies bowlegged bigger riders
obese riders tend to benefit from the system this is the single best selling pedal that I
saw in here four out of five petals that I sell of this long axle Shimano system moving on to war
is perhaps one of my least favorite systems and that's not going to be particularly popular with
a lot of the uses of speed play I have started to see a correlation between this system and problems
I feel that they have enjoyed the myth that they cure knee pain for far too long don't get me wrong
it's not a bad system for the right rider for a lighter rider ride doesn't put a huge amount of
power it's a good system it's double-sided so it means easy engagements the click the bulk
of the of the mechanism of the pedal is actually housed inside the click so it tends to be quite a
little bit lighter over the create is heavier but the issue I have with it is it's as much it's a
significantly smaller contact patch so I mean if you're looking at the difference between the two
and what that yields is is a loss and stability the other thing that we found is that the the
way that it will engage is there is a C spring that pops into these recesses in the pedal and
that that spring tends to deteriorate quite an alarming rate which means that the pedal starts
the developed rock and play quite an early stage so it's tickle if you're riding a lot myself to
see that work quite quickly if you are a bigger rider if you're a heavier rider if you're a more
powerful rider then if I'm honest this pedal system probably isn't for you if you're lighter
rider or particularly if you have problems with clipping in it's a great system you just stamp on
it and go if you're a bigger rider you might want to consider moving to the Shimano SPD
although really I just thought I would question who actually needs that level of adjustment I
think some idiot once said their bike fitters dream their bike fairs nightmare you are able to
very accurately pinpoint where the floaties in the pedal but to be totally honest you you shouldn't
need to do that unless they're a physiological challenge isn't the rider most people should be
able to sit relatively squarely and these these things you can also influence quite heavily way
bleeped location awk support anything wedding also influenced and furthermore things like sample
flight will influence how a writer how rights they interact with their parents if you've got
some of your Sitz rotated in the Sal as a result of their interaction with a bad saddle they will
sit rotated before me their feet will sit like this which is learn lots of people to set the cuts
the clip float to allow for that when in actuality what we should be doing is looking at what's going
on elsewhere why personally question whether you actually need that amount of adjustment
considering I have zero problems with an espy DSL the one other person won't find paler system that
we're going to talk about today was the Shimano SPD which is a mountain bike pedal system but
with the growth we're seeing in gravel bottom rubber writing three of us rode across Vietnam
and these we thought was worth mentioning now this is a mountain biking pedal system it's
designed to be used in conjunction with a shoe that has a recessed cleat which enables you to
walk around every every other pedal system here the the cleat bolts to the external surface of
the sole which means you end up looking actually on the cleat this system is again it's better for
mountain biking some elitists might say has no place on a road bike I would disagree somewhat
newer riders will really benefit from this system because you're it'll a little neighbor you'd walk
around I guess the problem with using it is that again it shares the same issues with the speed
play it's a smaller contact patch you get a lot of stability from that as a result which can lead
to problems further up the chain it's fantastic for commuters again usually bound by the boat by
the choice of shoe offers adjustment double side entry so again you can just stamp on the thing
there are different models with external cages like this that offer better stability it's less
affected by things like mud if your shoes too jammed up with crap mud then actually you can't
just stamp on the thing it'll go straight in so so yeah it's a really good starting point it's
it's incredibly durable again the model I would recommend looking at would be the r5 sorry the M
540 from as a starting point this is an M 520 that I just bought but the m5 40 offers a significant
improvement in bearing quality again you're just gonna get you're getting a better durability it's
gonna last longer from there you go up to XD FCR so on so forth oh yeah well worth using I love
pedals these are our findings let us know if you enjoyed this video you want to see more if you
have questions regarding pedal systems are common points below we will we'll both do our best to to
ask them and also if you want to know about by fit topics France and I this morning spent the
half the morning coming up with lists of content it's a long list of bike fit topics that we're
gonna be talking about over the coming months so if you want to know about something or something
that perplexes you just drop a comment and we'll do our best to answer it thanks for watching