Originally Posted by
bulgie
BTW Phil Wood CHP pedals are another one I won't ride, seen too many of them snapped off. Same deal, sharp transition due to a cartridge bearing. Same deal also with people reporting they rode them for decades and tens of thousands of miles, so YMM literally V. Do you feel lucky?
I'm glad you brought up the Phil pedals. I was going to mention them in response to merziac's platform concept in post
#17 . They were at one time pretty common, at least around my parts. I guess my parts was kind of the greater San Jose area though, so there's that. Anyway, in some ways they were a very smart design, but IMO it wasn't fully worked out. I also remember plenty of broken Phil pedals coming into the shop, during my wrenching days. As you say, some people rode them forever with no problems. I don't like relying on luck.