Do your pedals have a tab to help flip it up so you can slide your shoe in? Different pedals have different designs, some lack tabs altogether, and some tabs are larger than others. The pedal on the bottom (Lyotard mod. 23) was explicitly designed for fixed gear use with a large tab to make it easier to flip the pedal up.



The Lyotard mod. 23 was in production from the mid-1930s until the late 1980s so despite the fact they haven't been made for quite some time there are still quite a few around. Other manufacturers, e.g. MKS and SR make similar pedals with large tabs, and more recently White Industries' "Urban Pedal" is a close, albeit expensive updated copy of the original mod. 23 pedal. The only problem (IMHO) is that WI pedal doesn't have a ridge to hold a slotted cleat, but I rather suspect I'm one of only a very few people who still uses slotted cleats on a regular basis.