Originally Posted by
youthcom
Talk about timing. Mallet 2's are my commuter clipless pedals & this happened to me last Friday on a 3 year old pair. Luckily I didn't fall just swerved a bit & there was no traffic immediately next to me. I got these hoping they would work well with non clip shoes, but the clip springs still stick out enough to make riding that way uncomfortable. To Crank Brothers credit they gave me a prepaid return label & have shipped out a replacement pair. I thought at 3 years my Mallets would be out of warranty. Really after this I'm tempted to sell them & go with something & maybe try Shimano, but I do like CB's clip system.
Eeek! I have heard stories of CB pedals breaking in drastic ways like that (usually involving hitting a rock), but I've never actually seen it. My worst failures were: (1) a pedal seized and the outer half unthreaded from the inner half while I was riding, and (2) the outer bearing fell apart enough that the whole pedal body slid off the spindle mid-ride.
I have a friend who offers to give me a set of SPDs every time I tell him I'm rebuilding a pair of my CB pedals. I've told him when he offers me seven pairs so I can switch over all my bikes I might take him up on it.