Originally Posted by
crank_addict
Without doubt but I draw the line when the price becomes more than the whole bike.
Other: Thirty years ago I would laugh at them but finally acquired a pair of Lyotard number 23's for a Vic Edwards. Long production run, also known as pista type Marcel Berthet. Elegant, svelte vinti cool - likely today the touring rider might get the connection. To me they fit the old school high end racer vs. rat traps.
I loved those pedals. Until I found the Shimano 600 series (and modified them as I said in my last post) that was all I rode for fix gears. But they had 3 issues. 1) the tab for the cleat wasn't very deep and shortened the cleat life, 2) I regularly unscrewed the left dustcaps touching the pedals on corners (all my dead right pedals got robbed for their dustcaps) and 3) they simply weren't up to the rigors of life as a fix gear pedal. The peened fits would eventually loosen up and the pedal slowly fall apart. (I had for years a heavy box of dead 23s.)
Those pedals did have excellent clearance, Big help riding a sew-uped UO-8 as a fix gear. (World's lowest bottom bracket. I called that bike "the slinky".) Never crashed from a pedal hit. (See unscrewing the left dustcap!)
Ben