Hey everyone welcome!
We're all used to boutique bike brands like my Yeti here
but if you are a mountain biker in the marketplace today
you're going to find a lot of mountain bike components from boutique brands.
One of those is 5DEV, I shared with you guys this sexy and exotic crankset not too long ago.
Today I have for you their pedals, let's check them out!
5Dev products are manufactured in California right next to Yoshimura cycling
another Boutique brand manufacturing flat pedals like these.
And Crankbrothers is based in California as well,
you guys all probably know about the Eggbeater and their Stamp FLAT pedals, now many many generations later.
5Dev was started by the guys at 5-Axis, a well-known CNC machine shop in California
and their expertise is obvious once you start taking a closer look at the pedals.
They come in a white box with just the part number here on the side and their logo on top
and here are the pedals guys... [
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Needless to say the finish is top notch, you have subtle design elements here
with the logo and the side of each petal being laser etched onto the material.
They actually have a couple of models of these pedals
these are called All Around and do not have pins here in the middle, they only have them on the perimeter,
And I'm talking about the 2 pins that you see here close to the axle on the Trail/Enduro pedals
that don't exist on these All Around pedals.
The All Around offers 10 pins around the perimeter
I love the fact that the pins are screwed from underneath using a 2.5mm Allen key.
As for the little pins, these are threaded and in my experience these offer better overall grip to the bottom of your shoes.
In the box they also include 6 spare pins for the pedal set.
As for the height of the pins, that is 4.5mm-ish which is again kind of standard for the majority of these flat pedals.
One thing that I love about the pedals is that just like the Yoshimura CHILAO or the Crankbrothers STAMP pedals
they use this slim profile bearing here on the axle so you don't have the big mama bulge
that you will see with OneUp or PNW for instance.
They actually have 4 bearings and a bushing in here
and you can see that axle going the whole distance of the pedal assuming that keeps it stiffer overall
as opposed to pedals that only go three quarters of the way in.
By the way the axle is stainless steel and you can see that really slim profile.
We're talking about 18.5mm at one end and 13.5mm at the other end
overall this pedal being concave meaning the tip of the pins on the perimeter
are slightly higher than the middle here where the axle is,
so your shoe actually sinks in nicely touching the pins first and then sinking in close to the axle.
The actual pedal thickness is at 6mm and I love the size of these petals.
They are 106mm by 110mm so not too big not too small just the right size.
For installation we already know which pedal is Left which pedal is Right
but if you have an 8mm tool like this ParkTool HT for your pedals you cannot actually use it
because 5Dev decided to go with a 6mm hex.
This might make it a bit harder to torque this to the 40- 50 Nm that manufacturers usually recommend however
they use the same 6mm here so if you were to disassemble it that's all you need.
And also the tiny, tiny portable tools like this Pebble from PNW even this one has a 6mm on it
so I guess you can tighten your pedals on the trails if you have to.
If you're buying these pedals to beautify your bike well they exist in eight different colors this being one of them
and you can easily pick that when selecting the product from their website.
If you're buying the pedals because you want to save weight that would be a good reason as well
one pedal coming up to 173 grams which is pretty much the weight of an XT M8100 clipless pedals which is 170g
so you'll have 346 grams for a pair of these flat petals
which is again very close if not the same with a good clipless set of pedals.
So what kind of flat pedals do you guys use? Do you use flat pedals at all?
Ddo you use premium pedals like these 5Dev or you're settling for the cheaper PNW, OneUp or even cheaper than that?
Do you have any experience with the 5Dev pedals? I would love to hear from you guys in the comments below.
I hope you guys found this video useful and if you did don't forget to like, subscribe,
and until next time hope to see folks on the trails.
Cheers guys, cheers!