Well, after my pedal siezed up (gonna buy the $50 eggbeaters, or anotherr pair of V4pros from perfbike today), I finally got around to breaking htem open, and voiding whatever warranty I had (heck, I hate the warranty process, so might as well learn something).

There was lots of thick black sludge in there...a dry sludge, so I think it's safe to assume that something terribly wrong happened.

They were initially so siezed up that I could not open them to try to repair them....after 30 mins with a punch and hammer, I got the first bearing race to come loose...then got the first bearing cluster out (aroub 8-9 small ball bearings...I'm not sure on the number since I think I lost a few, thinking they were dried lube)...then after some more work, broke the shaft loose and got it out....this is where it really gets freaky.

The shaft was caked on with dried lube and what looks like rust, but is black! My assumption: the pedal was not lubed up adequately, leading to rust, and this rust caused friction, which made rust particles come off of the pedal shaft surface, which ended up contaminating the lube that was in there....this eventually lead to the lube becomeing a thick sludge..which eventually hardened enough that once they got into the bearings, seized it.

The pedal itself, was seized not on the ball bearings, but on the roller bearings in the middle of the pedal body...the pedal is actually a very good design, considering how small it was. The "bolt" you see on the outside of hte pedal is actually the load adjustment nut for the outer bearing race for the ball bearing section of the pedal. The roller bearings just make it turn smooth, while the ball bearings keep the pedal from shifting side to side on the shaft. This design is nice since it's very long-wearing.

As for the other pedal...still turns like silk...and the lube is still perfect in appearance...so I really don't know exactly what happened to allow one to foul up like that while the other is still pristine (other than the massive wear from clipping in/out all the time...that was my clip-out foot).

I was wrong about the design possibly not being clyde-friendly, after seeing how the bearings were set-up...just seems that special care needs to be taken for full cro-moly pedals, like these if ridden regularly in wet/rainy weeather.