Originally Posted by
valencia
... on a $700 bike. Trek Valencia - great bike, love it... new pedals already in the mail tubes... but then this happens!
P.S. WTF? Plastic pedals should be illegal on an adult bike. These probably cost Trek 50 cents a pair, and all metal, albeit cheap, would've cost them $1.00 a pair - made in China. I understand and accept there are different price points, but a $700 bike should not have the same pedals as a $79 bike from Walmart. And NO bike should have pedals that snap upon mounting. Talk amongst yourselves.
Not surprising. See this semi-often. Higher end bikes don't come with better pedals. They're omitted entirely. Those plastic ones you see are fine if they don't break. But otherwise i'd say they're good for test rides.
Which is precisely why they come on cheaptacular bikes.