Originally Posted by
CliftonGK1
Yikes.
I've had no problem with those same pedals in almost 600 miles of hammering the snot out of them on my fixed/singlespeed rig. Including a really gnarly curbstrike which lifted the back end of the bike clean off the ground by using the pedal/crankarm like a vaulting pole. That incedent did, however, thoroughly trash one side of the SPD mechanism.
I believe you. I would be willing to bet that in the years before this I had put thousands of miles on other examples of these pedals with only attachment failures, but a spindle failure imo is always unacceptable, especially in a MTB pedal.