Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - Look Keo Carbon...am I too heavy.

I just bought new pedals only to find out at 270lbs I may be too heavy. Can anyone give me the skinny?

When I asked my brother-in-law who owns an LBS about the Look Keo Carbon's he said I would crush them. He reccomended the Shimano Ultegra or 105 pedals.

<-----weighs 265

I have 1100 miles on my KEO Sprints and they feel like they did when they were brand new. I actually just bought a set of KEO easys for the commuter bike that im building up.

Pedals are one of the components I'd pay very close attention to. snap a spindle, standing the pedals and you have the makings of a very serious crash.

+1 Tom

I just bought some new pedals, and my lbs buddy was very addament about this:

- no titanium spindles, (usually 185 max weight)...i'm 284...
- no Carbon pedals, i would crush them and they're very fragile...
- Stainless or Cro-mo spindles only!!!!

I chose CB Candy SL's and love them so far.... If you're going with KEO go for sprints

Any of the Shimano pedal axles are fine for big boys like us. My Times have a solid steel axle and are fine. But I don't see why a carbon body is an issue.

Reliable is better than fashion.

I tend to fluctuate around 280-290 and I ride Look Keo Carbons with titanium spindles. After a few thousand miles I have had no issues with them. I don't hammer the way I did when I was young, but I don't have any worries about them breaking. Maybe I should, but so far, so good. I've heard the same types of things about the wheels I ride, but I haven't had any issues with them either. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe they are just well built. Hope it's the later.

I have not had any problems with my three sets of Look Keo carbon pedals. I did ditch the Ti spindles that came with one bike and replaced them with new cromoly spindles. Even nailed one pedal in a crash. It's scratched but totally functional.

They seem to be just slightly less resistant to crash-type damage than any other pedals to me.

I've never heard of clydes having any more issues than normal riders with Keos. I've seen a couple break on people, but it was caused by something else. One guy broke a pedal a couple of months after a bad road wreck, and the other was a week or so after the guy scraped his bike and bike wrack off the top of his car driving into the garage.

The same would have happened to any of the lighter-weight race-type systems (old super-light toeclips, speedplays, and even old-school light-weight road spd pedals).

I HAVE seen clydes break cheap plastic pedals that come with a mountain bike (me), carbon crank arms, ultra-light race crank arms ( old-school hollow aluminum - me again), titanium or carbon saddle rails (me again), and teeth off of older/worn-out chainrings and rear cassettes (me again). I also tend to wear out 9 and 10-speed chains a lot faster than my lighter riding buddies.

Pedals are one of the components I'd pay very close attention to. snap a spindle, standing the pedals and you have the makings of a very serious crash.

Happened to me once with platform pedals, which, fortunately, means the bike hit the ground but I didn't, and kept all my teeth where I left them... :D I wouldn't be eager to try my luck again.

The Look Keo Carbon Blades in either a titanium or steel axle have no weight limits according to Look.