Originally Posted by
Road Fan
Not to disagree, Chaadster, but what are cage pedals? I know about rattrap pedals, which are double sided and work well with or without toe clips (the ones that look like cages) and as a design extend back about 100 years, and about quill pedals, which are one sided, have one side that looks like one side of a rattrap sort of, and really don't work consistently without toe clips. Then there are touring and track platforms (not sure the difference is well-defined), intended for toe clips and are useless without their clips and straps. Some of these are IMO supremely comfortable: Lyotard Berthet, Campagnolo C-record and Chorus, and the MKS platforms.
Can you tell I still live in the era of toe clips and straps?
But really, I just want to know what your idea is with that term.
Your question is well taken, and honestly, the term 'cage pedal' is properly a quill pedal, though it may be double sided. Rat trap, to my mind, refers to metal cage pedals with a sawtooth edge profile, primarily BMX format, which is why I didn't use it.
The archetype 'cage pedal' as I call it:
