Originally Posted by
LesterOfPuppets
If PowerGrips had you use existing pedal hardware they'd get even worse reviews than they currently do.
You'd need to put a washer under that countersink bolt and that would severely reduce the number of threads engaged in the pedal body. Everyone would be stripping out the bolt holes on their pedals.
Of course half the people installing them at home would skip the washers and subsequently pull the straps right off those tiny bolts and wreck the strap.
I dunno about that. Most of the negative reviews seem to be from fixed gear riders who broke the standard mounting bracket (which BTW anchors the straps closer to the cage mounting bolts), but a lot of other people seem to like em. So now Power Grips comes out with a special fixie version which just replicates the cage mounting bolts at the reflector holes.
The countersinking around the bolt should pinch the strap even better than a washer would. And if you ditch the Power Grips brand straps themselves (the only remaining selling point now that we've dissected the mounting hardware) you could use something adjustable like an old belt or velcro which would solve the only real complaint from users who didn't break the mounting hardware.
All in all it just seems like Power Grips engineered an inferior solution out of what could have been so simple. I don't get it and I'm almost willing to buy the real ones just to see if it's as easy to improve on as it looks...only because I need new pedals and the pedal/strap combo set is (at 50% off) only about $13 more than buying similar pedals on ebay.
But what I'd really like to hear is from someone who likes Power Grips.